140 METAL
OTHER RESOURCES
e basic approach to lighting metal is determined by the family of angles
and, therefore, by the shape of the metal. Beyond the basic lighting, there
are a few more techniques you may want to try at any time, with any piece
of metal.
Any of these additional options can be purely creative decisions, but
they can serve technical purposes, too. For example, you may nd that the
edge of a piece of metal is disappearing into the background. Keep in mind,
the closer the metal comes to producing pure direct reection, the closer
that reection comes to photographing at the same brightness as the light
source.
As we have seen, the surface on which the metal is sitting is oen the
light source. If they are of identical ...