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How to Light Chrome on Location: Controlling Reflections When You Can't Control the Environment
Chrome is the material that exposes every amateur lighting decision. It doesn’t care how much gear you brought. It reflects everything around it with total honesty, and most of what surrounds a location shoot is visual noise. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen photographers aim a strobe at a shiny surface and wonder why the result looks like a carnival mirror. The problem is never the light you put on the chrome.