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A third alternative to the
lighting shown in Figure 6.4: a soft box, with its effective size
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adjusted by black cards.
We used the first of these three alternatives to photograph a brightly polished metal spatula on a white paper background. Figure 6.7 is the result. As we expected, the metal is a pleasing light gray. If you have never lit a scene this way, you might not have expected the photograph to render the “white� background so dark! This is a
6.7
The bright metal spatula
blade is placed against a white background. Do you know why the background is so dark?
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