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lights coming into the room,
and what their levels have to be. As a
sten
rule, I don't like
to expose moon¬
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any less than a stop under.
Then, in the lab, I'll take it down
another half
Solve
three-quarters of a
stop to keep it on the edge of what
moonlight would feel like under
to
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comes to Susanna's room to
give her
some
support. Green recalls, "In that
scene, we
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