Graphics Reference
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The lighting rig is designed to light the subject, but the problem is that for reflective materials, the important
thing to light is the scene, which will then reflect in the object.
Figure 7-17:
A nicely lit scene for opaque objects is far from ideal when lighting reflective ones.
The problem here lies in the reflections. The light objects in the scene do not reflect the bottle cleanly, so
the form of the model is largely lost. To look at a better possible solution for this, you will start by simpli-
fying the scene. Eliminate everything but the small softbox. Adjust the position of the object so it is much
closer to the bottle (just out of the camera view) and scale it down significantly. This will cast some light on
