Cross's photograph of a black bottle with a handle, standing on a white block, with two small bright window reflections on its body.

Concept · Seeing Light

Highlights

A highlight is the light source reflected off a surface.

Cross's black bottle shows two highlights because the window it faced was divided in two.

  • Highlights appear only where a surface reflects the light straight to the eye, so they shift as the viewer moves.

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Image: Internet Archive · Public domain (published before 1931)

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