PRE|SETS
Each card in the archive names a pattern, then the key, then the fill, then the preset. Broad and short: the key on the near cheek or the far one, the wider reading of a face or the narrower, with Loop Standard for the everyday soft key most sittings actually shoot. Beauty light: butterfly for a dish above and in front, the under-nose shadow small and symmetrical; clamshell for key above and reflector below, shadow contrast low and skin open across the whole face.
Hard light: a bare head, a fresnel, a snoot, with speculars left specular and shadow edges kept crisp; split for a source square to one side, half the face to shadow and the divide down the nose clean. Key and rim: Rembrandt for the three-quarter turn with the cheek triangle held; rim for back light and kickers, the edge glow pulled back from a blown line to a described edge.
Inside every collection the presets move by setup: the fill added, the ratio shallowed, the head turned, the grid fitted, the sitting that has to match last month's. Apply the card that matches the diagram in your set notes and run it across the whole sitting.
The drawers below show a few presets from each, on the same faces, so you can see the pattern honoured before you file it.
