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A polished gold dental onlay on a pedestal, lit so its surface glows softly instead of showing a harsh blown-out highlight

14 Oct The Surface That Fights the Lens: Photographing Gold, Ceramic, and Metal Restorations Without Blowing the Highlight

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A polished gold onlay, a glazed ceramic crown, a burnished amalgam — the most beautiful restorations are also the hardest to photograph, because each throws the flash straight back as a blown-white highlight. A material-by-material look at why gold, metal, and ceramic each fight the...

Macro photograph of a tooth with a bright specular highlight on wet enamel, framed as gallery art

01 Oct The Highlight That Burns White: HDR, Exposure Bracketing, and the Craft of Photographing Wet Enamel

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Polished, saliva-wet enamel throws a specular highlight so bright it burns to pure white, while the back of the arch falls into shadow. Exposure bracketing and HDR promise to hold both at once — if you can keep the result honest....