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Posted by mazoola at Aug 4, 2016, 11:10:26 PM
Re: Lighting a room – is it cheating?
@Cecilia

That's a little different, I think -- that appears to be the light reflecting in a shiny surface rather than it being cast by bouncing off the reflector. I'll have to play with this some when I get home, but I *think* a scene with, say, a semi-enclosed light source, an angled reflector, and a target object will show the object, shielded from direct rays, will receive no illumination. (A shiny target object will display a reflection of the reflector but otherwise remain unilluminated.) (I think.)

Maz

P.S. I suspect -- even with long days, short nights, and a total refusal to sleep -- I would still be working on the first scene from the film. The quality of your work is astonishing -- but the speed at which you achieve that quality is stupefying. Compared to you, I might as well be using MS Paint....