Tutorial on graduated specular highlights

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I promised to produce a quick tutorial on this subject in another thread (which I now can't find)...

Anyway, a graduated specular highlight is like a diffused specular highlight except that the light source is normally a large silk, lit unevenly to create a graduated effect.

We use it to light lenses and similar "impossible" subjects.

Anyway, here it is
 
Thanks Garry. Interesting and (as usual) very informative :)
 
Very interesting Gary, thank you. Was it a silver reflector in the last set-up?
 
Okay, I asked because you say: "One thing that we can do though, without adding an extra light, is to add a bit of fill at the front. I used a 5-in-1 reflector to pick up a bit of ‘spare’ light from the softbox to fill in the shadow areas a bit. It;s subtle but it’s there.
 
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Thanks Andy, I know what it is, I've got several, I was curious as to whether Gary used silver or white but he says he didn't use one at all.
 
paulcamcas said:
Okay, I asked because you say: "One thing that we can do though, without adding an extra light, is to add a bit of fill at the front. I used a 5-in-1 reflector to pick up a bit of ‘spare’ light from the softbox to fill in the shadow areas a bit. It;s subtle but it’s there.
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No, that statement was on a different tutorial, on diffused specular highlights, which I mentioned in this thread because the one I was writing about, on graduated specular reflections, follows on from it.
But now that I know that you're asking about a different tutorial, from memory it was a white reflector.
 
Aha, lightbulb moment, I only clicked on the first link in your post Garry. Now I've finally seen the second one, I'll learn twice as much :)
 
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