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…The greeting card gives the photo some atmosphere and can give the pen some meaning to the viewer. While with the plain background it is about nothing but the pen, the pen must speak for itself.
Hello Ironwood,
The ambiguity you are facing comes from not clearly understanding the purpose,
the intent of the communication in a document and the strategies that can be used.
These are guide lines not rules or laws!
The NO or PLAIN background is used as part of a catalogue with the job to identify,
differentiate, classify a given product from the others in a same catalogue.
The DECOR background is your salesman or sales pitch… the one with the
"I-wanna-have-this" effect!.
Pol, are you referring here to the polarising filter?
Everybody will "feel" the presence of tarragon in a dish, some will like and some not.
I never heard of anyone using purposely a lot of it, like some use salt or chilli!
So it goes with specular lights:
it must be but it must be controlled!
Your pens, by their nature, have a lot of reflective surfaces. It is, of course,
your right to decide to let them run wild or control them.
Nothing is right and
nothing is wrong in the making process… but when the final proof is on the
table, there you will see the effect it will have and realize that there is a better
and a no so good.
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When I proposed my boys to do the 9V battery (post #1), to teach them how
to do it, I took the strategy to make this simple and ordinary object look like
something extraordinary by means of simple but efficient visual effects!