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Your Glossy Products Are Mirrors. Start Lighting Them That Way.
The Palette That Exposed a Gap in My Thinking A few weeks ago I was shooting a skincare line for a small beauty brand. Simple brief, tight timeline, modest budget. One of the products was a pressed powder palette, the kind with a glossy plastic shell and a mirrored interior. I lit it the way I usually light small products: a large softbox camera-left, a fill card opposite, done. The images came back looking muddy.