📷 Photography basics
Transparency
The quality of allowing light to pass through a material.
What is transparency?
Transparency describes how much light passes through materials like glass, liquids, and certain plastics. Photographing transparent products requires backlighting to show clarity, careful reflection control, and often gradient backgrounds to define edges.
Pro tips
Backlight transparent products to show clarity
Use gradient backgrounds to define transparent edges
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