Video Tutorials
One Desk Lamp, One Subject, Zero Excuses: What Project 3 Taught Me About Lighting Control
There’s a specific problem that comes up constantly in commercial food and product work: shiny surfaces that either blow out completely or go flat and lifeless depending on where you put your light. I’ve burned through more test shots than I care to count trying to dial in the relationship between a glossy surface and the matte areas surrounding it. Too much light and you lose the specular highlight that tells the viewer “this is wet, this is fresh.