Reflection-reduced contrast formation method for generating a reflection-reduced contrast image, preferably from microscopic images, in particular for reading height profile information of an object property, comprising the following steps in the following order: - illuminating an object by way of two or more illumination sources that each individually illuminate the object in an illumination sequence ; - creating an illumination image of the object for each illumination of the object of the illumination sequence ; - ascertaining a reflection-corrected illumination image for each illumination image , in each case by superposing the corresponding illumination image with an illumination image that is adjacent with respect to a first axis and with a further illumination image that is adjacent with respect to a second axis ; - superposing in each case two reflection-corrected illumination images that are adjacent with respect to the first axis to form a first total axis image of the first axis ; - superposing in each case two reflection-corrected illumination images that are adjacent with respect to the second axis to form a second total axis image of the second axis ; - creating a first colour gradient image based on the first total axis image ; - creating a second colour gradient image based on the second total axis image ; - transforming the first colour gradient image and the second colour gradient image into a colour space ; and - generating a contrast image based on the transformed first colour gradient image and the second colour gradient image into the colour space such that four pieces of direction information of a height profile of a property of the object are representable in colour-coded fashion. - illuminating an object by way of two or more illumination sources that each individually illuminate the object in an illumination sequence ; - creating an illumination image of the object for each illumination of the object of the illumination sequence ; - ascertaining a reflection-corrected illumination image for each illumination image , in each case by superposing the corresponding illumination image with an illumination image that is adjacent with respect to a first axis and with a further illumination image that is adjacent with respect to a second axis ; - superposing in each case two reflection-corrected illumination images that are adjacent with respect to the first axis to form a first total axis image of the first axis ; - superposing in each case two reflection-corrected illumination images that are adjacent with respect to the second axis to form a second total axis image of the second axis ; - creating a first colour gradient image based on the first total axis image ; - creating a second colour gradient image based on the second total axis image ; - transforming the first colour gradient image and the second colour gradient image into a colour space ; and - generating a contrast image based on the transformed first colour gradient image and the second colour gradient image into the colour space such that four pieces of direction information of a height profile of a property of the object are representable in colour-coded fashion. <EOS>