How to you deal with reflections in glasses?

I'm a newbie & did a few seniors this year for friends. One of them had glasses and I was not happy with the reflections in a lot of pictures.....especiall​y if I used a fill flash. Any advice would be appreciated.

I ask them to remove the glasses. An alternative is to acquire glassless frames if the subject feels uncomfortable without them. Sometime you can work the scene to minimize reflections. But that's hard with a flash.

Adjust lighting, camera angle, and pose to minimize the reflection of the light source in the glasses.

Depending on the nature of the image, it's very rare that I try to correct it much in post.

Get the flash off axis, and have the glasses wearers turn a little away from the flash side. The combination will ensure that any reflection isn't captured by the lens.

No sure about this but a circular polarizer helps negate reflections in windows??? Never tried it w/ flash though.

if you slightly tip the glasses down, this often works for me

Scrumhalf wrote in post #18343781
Get the flash off axis, and have the glasses wearers turn a little away from the flash side. The combination will ensure that any reflection isn't captured by the lens.

+1. This gets it done every time.

Think of a camera-mounted speedlite being bounced off a wall to your 7 o' clock position. If you subject is facing you with their head turned slightly to their left, there would be no place for a reflection to show up in their glasses. They might getting a slight haze in their lenses, but not a true reflection.

This only becomes problematic with extremely thick lenses some people have to wear, where light refraction shows glass 'layers' unless you are 100% perpendicular to them. I have not had to photograph anyone like that yet, but I would imagine getting the flash off the camera would be the only option.

I found this Joe Edelman video helpful.

https://www.youtube.co​m/watch?v=AeVbJepHXlk

Lee

Some folks have the subject lift the temples a bit above the ears. Dunno, maybe that's what DarenM meant.

Thanks for the tips. That video really helped.

The tipping the glasses forward by lifting the earpiece off the ear slightly works well and looks natural. They just need to lift the earpieces maybe 1/8 - 1/4 inch.

CameraMan wrote in post #18468128
The tipping the glasses forward by lifting the earpiece off the ear slightly works well and looks natural. They just need to lift the earpieces maybe 1/8 - 1/4 inch.

Earpiece = Temple.

I always watch for reflections when people are wearing glasses and try to work the light angles to minimize them. If they are unavoidable for a particular shot, I'll take the photo with the glasses, reflections and all, and then have them remove their glasses and take the same photo again. I then use the non-glasses photo to edit out the reflections in PS. Just layer it on top of the original photo, match up the eyes and mask it so that the reflections can't be seen. It only takes a few minutes and is extremely effective.

I learned this very lesson the hard way in my most recent headshot session. Photographed 28 nursing program graduates. One of them had glasses. While posing her, I dealt with every reflection I could see. Yet, did not check a single one of the photos, and the result was huge reflections in the upper left corner of her glasses from my key light. No way I could deliver that. So I opted to try the Photoshop route. I am by no stretch of the imagination a re-toucher or photoshopper, and have had little experience in this area. But, I took my time, and did my best to "recreate" the missing parts of her eyes and eye socket area to eliminate the reflections.

She was incredibly happy and didn't even notice the fact that I had to spend a lot of time fixing her images.

Take the time to check your results before moving on. I could have avoided an hour or more of editing, by taking an extra 30 seconds to check my shot, and solve the problem right then and there.

Reflections of what, the modifier? Maybe you can show some problem shots to explain. I just shoot eyeglass wearer like my other subjects, no issues.