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This image took 3 minutes to capture but I remember thinking about the scenario for a good 20+ minutes scratching my head to come up with something that would have “Visual Impact”. It’s always difficult when you are facing a wall for the capture. I try to get some depth into the image by accentuating the available light, but in this setting the only light at the moment was the overhead fluorescent lights. By simply turning on the diagnostic board and rotating through the different lights I used the main brake light to frame the subject and then brought in 2 other lights to fill in some shadowed areas. With the final crop being used in a diamond shape for their marketing materials we cut out stencil so we knew the image would fit the parameters, and it did – Cambrian College Heavy Equipment Technician