Dwight, the light I use the most is ISS (Italian Summer Sun
) sometime with the help of the flash. I do not like artificial light even if you probably have more control with that.
Managing undesired reflex from the background is probably the most complicated post processing activity and not even a super powerful tool like Photoshop can easily do that.. On the other hand, I find that the surface treatment of our toys, that is intended also to avoid reflex, makes its job pretty well so itâ??s not really likely to have the problem. The only strategy I can suggest is just to avoid reflex on the frame picking up the proper light source and origin.
Nevertheless sometime it happensâ?¦
Here I took a shot of a pretty radical situation, 2 chrome plated Meg-Gar magazines over a strip of distress orange paper. Iâ??m sure that itâ??s not the typical photo we takeâ?¦.
Anyway here are the 3 types of reflex that could happen to your photos. The first is the relatively large area on the second magazine. There is almost nothing to with this, itâ??s too wide and itâ??s definitely better to shot another picture with a better control of the light.
The second reflex in on the edge of the front magazine and is a pretty easy one. The best Photoshop tool is CLONE STAMP. Select the proper brush size and opacity and it will be a piece of cake.
For the little orange reflex on the middle rib of the magazine, we can try a technique that looks pretty brutal but works. Just copy a portion of the mag close to reflex and paste that over it. Do not worry if the edges of the copied are look evident like this,
just use again Clone Stamp to smooth them.
This is the final results, but as I said nothing is better then a good â??baseâ? photo.
Hope you found sonthing useful.
Paolo
P.S.: Morgan, with all that magnificent equipment we want now to see a photo of your P08 â?¦on Jennifer Lopez belly!!!
