Shooting glassware is a very interesting artistic creation. Because glass objects have different modeling effects for different lighting modes. Shanghai product photographers can sketch the outline of glassware at will through lighting, and can skillfully use the reflection of glass to reveal its crystal clear essence; Photographers can use white edge light to outline the shape of glassware in front of a black background; You can also achieve the same goal in the opposite way in front of a white background. What I want to introduce now is the method of shooting glass cups in front of a black background. Commonly used lighting for shooting glass: backlight, bottom light and top light. When shooting glassware, the most common mistake is to directly illuminate the subject with light from the front. If the lamp is used in this way, glare will inevitably appear on the glassware, just like a mirror. Glass sometimes reflects the image of the lamp truthfully, making the picture very ugly. Therefore, no matter shooting any reflective object, don't use direct light! In other words, do not directly illuminate the glass surface from the front. So, what kind of lighting should be used to shoot the glass? There are about three kinds: 1, backlight; 2, bottom lighting, 3, lighting. For example, we shoot a glass filled with chocolate candy wrapped in gold paper and silver paper. These metal foils make shooting more difficult. Because, in order to make the color of metal foil have enough expressive force, it is necessary to irradiate the main body with multiple light sources from different directions. Otherwise, the metal foil will flicker, affecting the beautiful picture. So, how should we market light? First of all, the outline of the cup should be photographed before the black background, that is, several white highlights should be drawn on the main edge of the cup. First, put a lamp on the top of the cup and add a soft light cover in front of the lamp. If the area of the light source is too large, it will affect the darkness of the background. You can cover the light source with black paper, or put a baffle behind the light. At this time, a round of white highlights will appear at the top and bottom of the cup. Then, put a piece of white paper higher than the cup on both sides of the cup, and a white highlight will appear around the cup. With the prominent outline, the shape of the cup will be revealed in front of the black background, but this is not enough. In order to show that the cup is round, three-dimensional and glass-like, it is necessary to add a decorative bright spot on the cup (that is, the bright spot on the left side of the cup). This is the reflection effect produced by placing a mirror on the table in front of the cup on the left. I don't think this reflecting point is obvious, so it's better to see what's in the cup. How to solve the illumination problem of the objects in the cup? The cup placed in front of the black background has a highlight around the white to outline its shape; There is another piece of white reflection to explain its texture and three-dimensional sense. It seems basically enough. Because it is transparent, we don't need a lamp to illuminate it. However, now the cup is filled with chocolate wrapped in metal foil, which needs various lighting. Because of this, it is necessary to add another lamp: put a lamp with soft light facilities in front of the cup, and then add several white reflectors around the cup, so that the metal foil wrapped in chocolate can be irradiated in many ways. However, it is very important to carefully adjust the position of the additional lamp and reflector to avoid seeing its light on the glass cup. If you take a close-up, the camera is very close to the cup and the camera leather cavity is very long. During exposure, the aperture of 1.5 should be increased according to the photometric reading, so as to compensate the light lost due to the elongated leather cavity.