 Travis J. Lightbourne |
How to capture glare I have a problem and I know this sounds strange but I want to take a picture of the glare in my window at night when the light in my room is on. The problem is and why it hasn't been working for me is my camera can't see the glare like I see it. The only way to get any glare from the window with the camera is to use the flash but that presents entirely new problems in itself, namely a gigantic ball of light in the middle of the picture when it turns out. Does anybody know what the best way is to capture glare reflected off a window? Any comments will help
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W. |
"in [your] window at night when the light in [your] room is on" it is not "glare" what you see, travis. What you see is a reflection. "Glare" – a.k.a. "flare" – is something else: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_flare To capture the reflecting image in a dark window put your camera on tripod, use the selftimer, and do a series of manual exposures with longer and longer shutter times, starting at 1/10 second, ISO 200, F/5.6. The right exposure will be among them. Look at the EXIF data of that capture to record the values. Have fun!
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Bob Cammarata |
Your lens must be positioned in the same field of view and pointed in exactly the same direction to re-create glare that you can see with the naked eye. (...and don't add any filters or flash.)
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Travis J. Lightbourne |
Awesome info... i'm not sure what a lot of it means but i'll do my research :) It also sounds like i'm gonna need a new camera that has all these options to set... any suggestions on where to start looking?
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