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Controlling Reflections in Impossibly Reflective Objects / Metal turtle statuette

As we've seen with many other lessons on Web Photo School, lighting and photographing highly reflective objects can be somewhat challenging, particularly if you've never done it before.

However, once you have the right lighting tools and have experimented a little with some basic lighting and camera techniques, you'll be surprised with how many different ways you can go about creating professional-looking images, AND with how easy the whole process can be.

This lesson uses this highly reflective musical turtle to demonstrate the basic principles of softbox and LitePanel lighting techniques.

(Most images can be clicked for an enlarged view.)

Topics Covered:

  • Deciding on a background
  • Using a built-in flash
  • Modifying reflections with a softbox
  • Double-diffusing with LitePanels
  • Adjusting the tonal gradation and contrast of the shot

Equipment Used:

Camera/Media

  • Olympus E-20N digital camera
  • Olympus 512MB CompactFlash card
  • Lithium Polymer battery pack
  • Tripod

  
 

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