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Lighting Shiny Metal for Product Photography: What Golf Clubs Taught Me About Reflection Control
Every product photographer hits the same wall eventually. You’re asked to shoot something with a mirror-like surface, you point a softbox at it, and the image comes back looking like a light bulb advertisement. The product disappears. What you’re actually photographing is your own gear staring back at you. Golf clubs are one of the more brutal examples of this problem. Curved metal shafts, polished club heads, chrome ferrules, all of them acting like tiny fisheye lenses reflecting your entire studio.