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SLC-1L-09: Compressing Tonal Range With Specular Highlights

White marble, dark chocolate, one light source. Problem? Not at all. Because pretty much everything you can actually see across the top of that box is not really the "correct" tonality of the chocolate. It's all specular highlights. Controlling the … Continue reading

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Lighting 102: Controlling Specular Highlights

We have all had to deal with specular highlights, even if we did not know what they were called. Think about portraits of people you have made in direct sunlight. Remember that glaring spot on their face or forehead? That … Continue reading

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