Hive account@adamdo To give you an idea, the image color of makeup and background were the same colors as the lemon photo I posted before this post :) The shadow technique is simply applying an exposure layer to the image and setting the exposure darker. Then choose the selection tool in Photoshop (in this case the square selection tool) and select random squares and delete from the exposure layer in a feathered radius. You can also apply a motion blur to the exposure layer to add an additional fading if needed. Then just adjust the opacity of the exposure layer and you can free transform the layer to make the squares larger and then move around so that the shadows fall on you model or subject where needed! I have a few different shadow effects I use occasionally and I have created Photoshop Actions of them since I love them so much!