4.14Adventures in Lighting, Part II—The Gleaming Specular
By definition, a specular highlight is a mirror reflection of the light source in your subject. This can also be described as direct reflection. Properly utilized specular reflections help to define the shape of a glossy or highly reflective surface such as glass or chrome.
The first shot of the bottle. Here I’m just lighting with two bare Fresnels and the result is two pinpoints of light in the bottle.
The classic example of this is a wine bottle. Here I have a beautiful bottle of 2003 Francis Ford Coppola’s Rubicon Cabernet Franc (a favorite of mine), which is a lovely dark bottle with ...
Get Behind the Lens now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
