I know what you mean. I do like to have hard shadows so that makes me a bit weird. I do like to have them in my photos too. So I don't use light domes. (heretic)　The soft shadow option has worked for me before using soem shadowless lights to fill it in worked out well. Ther ewas a post a while back about using negative lights to do this. I might have to try that. Try that for a new way if you have not.

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