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The Laser Trick That Changed How I Position Lights for Reflective Product Shots
There’s a specific kind of frustration that comes from lighting a product with a glossy surface. You dial in what looks like a clean, controlled setup, take the shot, and the whole face of the product is a blown-out white rectangle. The name is gone. The color is gone. What you have is essentially a very expensive photograph of a reflection. I’ve been there more times than I want to admit, and it took me a long time to develop a reliable system for predicting where that reflection would land before I ever fired a strobe.