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Instead, you’ll want to make sure that you use a reflective surface, such as white, silver, or gold fabric.

So you can just grab a piece of dark cardboard and use it as a reflector it won’t work. Note that the quality of the bounced light will differ depending on the material of the reflector–so that white material will give a more even light than silver material, which will give cooler light than gold material, etc.Īlso, note that dark, non-reflective materials just won’t work well as reflectors, because they don’t reflect. In reality, reflectors are pretty simple to understand. If you have sidelight and you angle the reflector so it’s facing off to the side, it’ll bounce the light slightly away from the sidelight source. So if you have an overhead light source and you put a reflector under it, the reflector will bounce the light right back at the overhead light source. What is a reflector, and what does it actually do?Īs the name suggests, a reflector bounces–that is, reflects–light in whatever direction you point it.