I’m seeing people in Zoom shows with a ton of lights and the lights are all spread out and far away. We want large light sources as close to us as possible. When we move a light away we lose a lot of power.
The inverse square rule says that we loose double what we might intuit.
If a light is 1 foot away from my hand, and I move it to 2 feet away. The brightness of my hand is not cut to 50%. It’s cut to 25%. That is much dimmer. Every little bit counts. We’re talking 4 times the brightness every time we move a light halfway in.