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Conk

26th of October 2004 (Tue), 23:37

I have a photo-shoot booked for next week and one of the people wears glasses. I would like to solve a potential problem before it happens. Any tips on avoiding glare from the glasses? I would like to avoid having to process in photoshop.

Ikinaa

26th of October 2004 (Tue), 23:55

Just a thought ... remove the glass from the glasses...
Most glasses have little screws, when loosening them, the glass comes out...
ok... you have to convince the subject to do it... but here you have absolutely no reflection...

robertwgross

27th of October 2004 (Wed), 00:00

A portrait photographer used to tell his clients to bring some old eyeglass frames (without the lenses). The bare frames would fit the client, yet the lack of glass would make the photo go easy.

---Bob Gross---

steven

27th of October 2004 (Wed), 07:24

I have never tried but couldn't you use a polorized filter to get rid of the glare :?:

ChrisN

27th of October 2004 (Wed), 08:29

I would go with the removal of the glass from the glasses.

The other thing that is not taken into account is with stronger perscriptions the glass tends to "bend" the profile of the face when not looking directly at the camera. This alone would annoy me.. :D

HJMinard

27th of October 2004 (Wed), 08:38

Knowing that you're an aspiring "petographer" ... I read the title of this thread and thought "now this I gotta see" ! :lol:

Conk

27th of October 2004 (Wed), 09:36

Knowing that you're an aspiring "petographer" ... I read the title of this thread and thought "now this I gotta see" ! :lol:

That thought occurred to me when I posted this. :lol: I have since changed it anyway. I thought pawtographer more suitable. :D
The thought of a polarizing filter occurred to me but I think I'll try and get him to bring a pair of glasses with no lenses. I also thought about photo-shopping the image to correct it but decided to just avoid having to do as much processing as possible.
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I appreciate it. If there are more I'll certainly look at it.

J___

27th of October 2004 (Wed), 10:08

I have never tried but couldn't you use a polorized filter to get rid of the glare :?:

no because u need to be at 45 degree angle to the subject for polarizer

Mark Kemp

27th of October 2004 (Wed), 11:07

I have never tried it, but I have been told that a good technique is to turn the persons head slightly sideways and put the main light well off to the 'forward' side of his head. This minimises reflections from the main light because the angle from light to glasses to camera is very acute. You have to live with some reflection from any fill lights and/or shadows caused by the sidelighting. Apparently you have to adjust, person light and camera position and try for the best effect. Let me know if you try it, as I said its only what I have been told, so I will be interested to see if it works.

The distortion of the eyes caused by the glass is not normally a problem, because most people are used to seeing other people or themselves with their glasses on and so see this as normal. They would look odd to most people who know them without their glasses.

Andy_T

29th of October 2004 (Fri), 03:10

Has already been said ... glasses without glasses.

Some years ago my wife and I had wedding photographs taken in a professional wedding photography studio in Taiwan.

In the studio, they had not just hundreds of wedding dresses, gowns, suits and costumes, but also empty frames in all different styles ... so I could choose one that resembled my normal glasses :lol:

Best regards,
Andy

Conk

31st of October 2004 (Sun), 00:23

Some good tips. Thanks.

thomascanty

31st of October 2004 (Sun), 01:06

Knowing that you're an aspiring "petographer" ... I read the title of this thread and thought "now this I gotta see" ! :lol:

Missed my "Ashley's new glasses" thread in Share, did you? :lol: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=46169

HJMinard

31st of October 2004 (Sun), 17:03

sugargirl342

31st of October 2004 (Sun), 19:32

I work at a studio and one of the photographers have the clients tilt their head down just a slight bit so the glasses aren't straight towards the camera

..it does work but then again depends on the angel of the clients head.

taking out the glass is a good idea too.

Meg :D