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marvin wrote:...What do you think about the argument that a darker shirt was used in the original shot as this would absorb more light and therefore give more of a texturised look? Would the pure white reflect too much?
I'm not Chuck, but if I may join the conversation...
Photography is "writing with light" -- so learning to control light is fundamental.
A black shirt and a white shirt can be made to both look gray by controling the amount of light that reflects off the shirt and enters the camera.
A white shirt would be better for showing texture -- as long as it's not over-lit -- because a dark shirt would tend to absorb light to the point of blocking up unless you have a lot of light; your 100 watt incandescents probably wouldn't be much good.
Also, if you lit the black shirt enough to make it look light enough to layer color over, the mannequin on which it was mounted would look blown out unless it, too, was vary dark.
So I think they used a white shirt.
Chuck has a very good tutorial on his Web site where he shows how to set exposure by using a white towel as a test target; and that white towel shows plenty of texture because the various light sources hit the fibers at different angles, creating peaks and valleys of highlight and shadow.
If you go to the Web sites of good wedding photographers, you'll see lots of examples of lighting whites for texture, because most brides (in the western world, anyway) wear white wedding dresses, and they won't pay for photos that make them look like they're wearing glowing sheets of textureless light.
Yours is really a good question, and as you can see it opens all kinds of doors for further inquiry into how photographic lighting works.
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