Product Photography

2 SHAPE, TEXTURE, AND MATERIAL

Light and Texture

Mixed Surfaces

Parallelepipeds

Complex Shapes

Spheres and Rounded Shapes

Cylindrical Shapes

Lighting Glossy Metals

Lighting Glass

LIGHT AND TEXTURE

So far, we have looked at objects with smooth, flat surfaces. But in most cases, objects have a texture that needs to be showcased.

If we don’t make a point of illuminating it in a way that brings out the texture, a sponge will look like a brick, or like any old vaguely flat parallelepiped that produces diffuse reflections. It is the sponge’s texture, made up of a multitude of variously sized holes, that allows us to identify it as a sponge. ...