Curiosity Studies II, Reflections.

This started as an inquisitive look at what a reflection can be, and how you light one. A polished surface has no tone of its own, so the picture is entirely a matter of what you put in front of it to be seen. That is the difficulty. You are not lighting the object, you are lighting its surroundings and then choosing an angle where the object collects them. A curved bowl compresses a whole room into a thumbnail, so a small move of the source is a large move in the frame. I fanned teaspoons and forks in rows so each bowl reads as a separate small mirror, then fed them coloured gels alongside light off production screens, monitors and televisions. Treating the same object differently each time is the method: one setup, changed one variable at a time.