
THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING GLASS 163
Eliminating Extraneous Reflections
Because glass reects in a mirror-like manner, anything in the room may
reect in the subject. erefore, aer satisfactorily lighting a piece of
glassware, we must nish the job by removing any extraneous reections
caused while putting together the set-up. is is especially true of dark-eld
lighting because the dark background visible through the glass makes the
brighter extraneous reections particularly visible.
e rst step in getting rid of these unwanted reections is to nd which
objects in the surrounding area are being mirrored in the glass surface. Once ...