
98 REVEALING SHAPE AND CONTOUR
create a problem. It causes the shadow of the subject to fall on the table
surface beside it. And, as we saw earlier, shadows are least likely to become
strong compositional elements if they fall at the bottom of the picture,
under the subject.
With the above in mind, in those cases when we do place our main light
to the side of a cylindrical subject, we usually use a large light source. is
further soens the shadow and makes it less likely to compete for attention.
THE GLOSSY BOX
In Chapter 4, we saw that good lighting requires distinguishing between
diuse and direct reection and then making an informed ...