This is a brief excerpt from Strobist
A little ways back, LumoPro approached me about doing photos of their product line. That’s a lot of gear, and the whole project was more than I would have time to take on.But I do enjoy shooting this kinda stuff. So we compromised in that I would shoot some of their more popular items now and the photos could be used as a template for anyone who might be shooting the other items later.Here’s the thing. Shooting shiny black objects is one of those cases where your incident meter may be very accurate, but in practice it’s no help at all. Because properly exposed, a black object is, well, black… __________Don’t Trust Your FlashmeterThis is one of those times when your camera back actually trumps a several-hundred-dollar flash meter. Because shooting a shiny black object is not about getting the incident exposure right. (After all, black is black is black.) But rather it is about creating—and then photographing—controlled reflections on those objects.On black, texture is defined by specular reflections. On white it is defined by shadows. So to shoot the LP toys we’ll need to create some speculars. But not before creating a consistent background …
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