Post on 17-Aug-2020
The Benefits of
Reflectors
September 2014
Nicholas M. HellmuthCopyright FLAAR 2014
for photographing flowers
Reflectors are used in fashion photography and product photography. We would like to assist the thousands of nature photographers learn the benefits of using reflectors for taking pictures of plants and flowers.
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This is the resulting photograph from using the Westcott reflector shown on the previous page.
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Gold or Silver or White?If you are doing fashion photography, or if you want innovative lighting results, you can experiment with gold or other colored reflectors. At the FLAAR Mesoamerica research institute in Guatemala, we prefer to utilize “silver” or comparable neutral
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The web site to see the reflectors is www.FJWestcott.com. The web sites to see the results of using these reflectors are:
www.maya-ethnobotany.org
www.maya-ethnozoology.org
www.digital-photography.org
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The Benefits of
Reflectorsfor photographing flowers