Don’t Point a Light at Shiny Objects, Understand How to Photograph Reflective Surfaces

Learn How To Photograph Shiny Objects in this Laws of Light Product Lighting Tutorial. Reflective surfaces are different than anything else you'll photograph in that it really doesn't need light shined at it. If you shine a light straight at the shiny metal, it doesn't light it. It's like a mirror and it reflects everything around it. So take a look a this step by step tutorial on how to light shiny metal!
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00:00 How To Light Shiny Metal
00:10 Placing the soft box
01:12 Avoid looking plastic
01:37 Create a gradation on product
02:22 Adding reflectors
03:06 Add light across to open up shadows
03:43 Light details with bounce light
04:13 Add gradation with black card
04:57 Create dimension with black card
05:31 Use putty to angle product to get details
06:09 Adjust cross light to minimize light on background
06:19 Adjust shadows in Photoshop
06:41 Lighting Breakdown - Recap
07:17 Pay attention to angle of incidence
07:47 Adding and subtracting light
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Every time when I come here I learn something useful which helps me to take my works to next level. Thanks Mr. Morgan for the lovely tutorial. Love from India. 🇮🇳

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Hi Mr. Morgan - I just discovered your channel while looking for specific photography lighting tips and I am astounded by your high quality videos. I generally don't watch YT because it's difficult to parse through it to find quality content, but I've found myself watching several of your videos. You present topics in a clear and easy to understand manner that's friendly for both beginners and veterans. I love how you show real-time demonstrations with how lighting is affected by different objects. Just wanted to give a big thank you for all you do and looking forward to more!

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Wow, Thanks so much. I appreciate your comment!

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Excellent job! Mr Potts would give you an A+ on this one.

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Good old Mr. Potts! Appreciate your comment!

[@TheseusTitan]

I really enjoyed watching your thought process concerning lighting and its challenges. I have had difficult situations in lighting objects (mainly because I don’t know what you know). Since the camera is on a tripod, what about lighting the leather and taking one photo and then lighting the dagger and then putting the two together in Photoshop? You can get the optimum lighting of both worlds. It is fast that way too

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That is an interested thought. It will work if you are good at creating the shadows in Photoshop. But probably not faster than lighting the product and scene.

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Thanks Brother, I have a silver stacking channel and your video was fantastic. Answered all my questions.

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Glad I could help. Thanks for watching!

[@SinaFarhat]

This is great! :) Have a good week!

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Thanks Sina! You have a great week too!

[@zungalele]

Will try using this tips with gemstones. Tnxs!

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Great plan. Let us know how your shoot turns out!

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Spotting neg works so beautifully. Every day.

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Wow, there is a throwback to days gone by. Thanks for your comment.

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@@TheSlantedLens Thanks for sharing your good work.

[@Skipsul]

This works not just for metal, but also shiny or transparent plastics, which have their own difficulties.

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Very true. Thanks for your comment!

[@Graham_Wideman]

All these "90 degrees" are really the incident angle equaling the reflected angle. Only if the incident angle is 45 degrees (to the reflective surface) is there a 90 degree angle between incident and reflected rays.

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Thanks for watching and keep on clickin!

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Thank you

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You're welcome Michael! Thanks for watching!

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amazing

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Thank you. Glad you liked it!

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Why do my objects look like garbage when I photograph them with a phone camera and room lighting... oh, that's why

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