 KELLIE K. DAILEY |
Glare From Glasses I do a little photography on the side, but I am having trouble with the glare on glasses. I get it even it I bounce the flash, it seems. Can anyone help? Thanks
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Piper Lehman |
Hi, Kellie. You might try using your polarizing filter to cut back on glare. As for the flash, I'm not sure how to do this except just trial and error. Are you shooting digital or film? Either way, you can also use a screen (softbox) on your flash to help with glare. Try the softbox attachment with your flash both bounced and straight on your subject to see what you get. There are a couple of good companies out there who make softbox attachments for most flash guns. If you're using the on-camera flash, you can make your own softbox by taping a piece of thin printer paper, or some other "see-thru" material you can find around the house, to the flash head. IT's not perfect, but it does work. Hope this helps!
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Jeff S. Kennedy |
Reducing reflections in glasses is all about geometry. You need to either get the flash at an angle that doesn't reflect in the glasses or tilt the glasses at such an angle that they don't reflect. That's simply a matter of having the eyeglass wearer raise the legs of his glasses slightly above his ears to make the plane of his lenses face down. Diffusing the flash as suggested above will do nothing to eliminate the reflection. If you use a softbox it will only make the reflection larger. And putting tissue over a flash to "diffuse" it is a myth. The only way to diffuse light is to increase it's size relative to your subject. Placing a material over your flash does nothing more than cut down the amount of light emanating from the flash.
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tad a. Slavan |
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