If an image is obviously set indoors: there are walls, furniture, etc, then I think it somewhat deluded to think of round catchlights as being natural. There doesn’t have to be a window in the frame, indeed if there where, then it would be unlikely that the catchlight came from that window.
And, I don’t think the general punter gives a hoot about the shape of catchlights, it is more of a misplaced photographer thing. The sort of thing that lost me points in school critiques.
At a banquet event, I find nothing wrong with multiple catchlights. I don’t find multiple catchlights that attractive, but I certainly don’t find them unrealistic.
My current studio space has fifteen foot windows facing north, I rarely shoot indoors with natural light, But if I did, there would be great big rectangular catchlights; as natural as you could get.
Brian A
Sep 21, 2012 at 08:28 PM
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