tom kf4wol

Merry Christmas eve QueenChatty,

AL FR-153, saved the photo for me, thus I will be able to send to friends and not be embarrassed. AL FR-153 will be given the credit as I explain the improved photo to them.

I think the UHH is fantastic and Folks like You, AL FR-153 and all the others whom have offered help and advice are greatly appreciated.

Now and then some negatives always migrate into everything we do in life, don't get discouraged, because the like cream in milk the good folks always rise to the top should as You, Al_FR-153 and others whom have commented.

I really enjoy the UHH, my skin is think, I did hesitate to post a "crappy photo" and ask for advice....expecting to be told to find another hobby..ha ha..What I received is positive advice, help and the time and skill from a wonderful person I do not know AL Fr-153.....with all the things going on in our Society...We need more QueenChatties and AL FR-153 and the attitude of helping each other.

I check the UHH daily, love it and my Christmas Eve is a good one, I hope the same for you today.

Merry Christmas to You and those who Love You and I know there must be many of them!!!!

tom

Wayne Snyder Loc: Pewaukee,Wisconsin

Is your camera a digital camera ? If it is what I do is often enough is after each photo I look at the review screen to see if any body has there eye's shut or any other problems that may acure. in reviewing you can zoom in to get a better look at any mistakes.
Wayne----

MtnMan Loc: ID

I guess I am fortunate: my wife won't let me take her picture with her glasses on.

Removing the glare in post is possible but difficult. You'd likely do better upping the ISO to avoid using flash. If flash is necessary use a diffuser and/or better yet bounce the flash and/or use an off-camera flash at an angle so the reflection goes somewhere other than into your lens. Most any of these methods will yield a usable result if you really need to have the glasses on.

MtnMan Loc: ID

That is a very nice job with what you had to work with!

I'd probably also crop to minimize distractions and darken, increase contrast, and sharpen. Although I used CS6 you can do all of those as well easily in Photoshop Elements.

I see in the posting here there is still some reflection above her head. You might try taking the burn brush to that.

PS: Love the Christmassy red!

tom kf4wol

Thanks Wayne,

Appreciate your advice, I will try to do remember to do that, I have a Nikon D-5000. Camera more intelligent than me, I can quickly reduce it to my Village Idiot level as you can see from the photos..ha ha

Still have that old point and shoot habit....

Erv has helped me a lot, and finally got me off Auto into P and M modes..ha

Appreciate the advice will drill in my bald head.

Merry Christmas

tom

georgevedwards Loc: Essex, Maryland.

I recently ran into the same problem, I had the subject turn his head slightly and then look back at the camera. Problem solved! You could see his eyes, you could see the glasses, but no reflection glare that comes when the subject faces the camera straight on. The idea is to get the plane of the lenses of the glasses to not reflect light back at the camera. This is achieved by avoiding a perpendicular angle, between the line of sight to the camera with the plane of the glasses.
Notice how when the man in the photo tilted his head down and turned slightly he avoided that straight-on angle and the glare disappears.

jimmya Loc: Phoenix

Hi Tom.

Are these your folks? Nice looking couple.

You'll notice how dad's chin is down - no glare... mom's chin is up... glare.

In this situation I'll normally ask them to tip chin down - it often helps.

Good luck

donnz Loc: Auckland, New Zealand

Tom I note your thanks message and uglyhogs in general against amateur radio. I have to agree, hams can get pretty nasty,
looked you up on qrz
Don zl1atb

tom kf4wol

Merry Christmas JimmyYa,

Thanks, no they are long time friends over 52 years, the lady Charlene wasin our wedding 50.5 years ago.

We recently visited them, first time we had gotten together in over 40 years due to living in different locals.

As we were planing to leave,I ran to the car, got the Nikon D-5000 and it had a Nikor 50 mm f1.8 lens mounted, with Nissan Speed lite, without thinking, I shot the photos using flash...and my Village Idiot knowledge of Photography resulting in over exposure and the glare.

As has been suggested, I should have slowed down, viewed the photos in the lcd and re-shot...even if I did at that time, my in-experience would have not known how to adjust for glare other than removing glasses....often friends who wear glasses just don't look the same with them off , since we have always known them with glasses on...I have learned a bit up the forum QueenChatty posted an excellent link to a video site that address eye glass reflection/glare, that was very Educational.

We will be getting together in late January since their children will be giving them a 50th wedding Anniversary party...I hope to take much better photos at that visit.

Thanks for your comments.

Merry Christmas from our home to Yours.

tom

Ka2azman Loc: Tucson, Az

I'm no professional phototog but I learned a little trick and it follows along the line of the links on glass reflection. This is especially for those that are shooting with the camera flash only, where you can't change hight or angle of an unbrella.
Besides having the person tilt their heads to change the angle of light, have them tilt their glasses also. Namely have them raise the rear of the glasses (part that goes over the ears) slightly. This adds to the angle changes of the head thus greatly adding to the light being relfected to another direction and not picking up glare..

Pentony Loc: Earth Traveller

Notice that the man's nose is pointed towards your right shoulder but his eyes are looking at the camera, hence no glare. If the women had been asked to point her nose (face) towards your left while bringing her eyes back to the camera, there would not have been any glare.

The point is to offset the face (nose) from the camera while having the eyes looking at the camera. In this way the flash bounces off the glasses at a different angle from the camera, that is the flash does not bounce off the glasses directly back into the camera.

Another way is to do off camera flash.

Al FR-153 Loc: Chicago Suburbs

Tom,

Went back and played with it some more, since you threw praise and not rocks. :lol: You are more than welcome by the way. Enjoyed trying my hand at it. This time, I worked the background. Don't look too closely, you might be shocked. Got rid of most of the reflection though.

BTW, I didn't notice the call sign earlier. I'm retired from HAM land, because of some health issues and I am not allowed close to RF any longer. Ex-WA0NTY, WA9NWS and K3LET. Those calls go back a few years. K3LET was back in '58....last century even....

Merry Christmas - - -73, 88 to XYL of many years....and hats off to her for putting up with a HAM..... :lol:

Al

P.S. I left any cropping to you. You know what is important and what is not, or if you even want to crop it.

Also noticed what appears to be a rig on the counter top. :D Had thoughts of overlaying a tri-bander on top of it, but thought better of it.

Bill Hay Loc: land Tauranga, NZ

My first suggestion would be to use bounced flash (off the ceiling, or adjacent light coloured wall)
A tip I learned from a professioinal wedding photographer was to have the subject tilt their glasses by raising the earpieces slightly.
Both of these tips mean taking a photograph rather than "doctoring" it.
Happy Hogmanay
Bill H.

tom kf4wol

AL FR-153

Hi Again and Thanks Again.

I do appreciate the all you have done to the photo, your valuable time to save a photo for me.

Roger on the Ham Radio, I still have a nice "Shack", but don't do much radioing....Now and then I will listen to few folks chat until they get into an argument then hit the power button.

Now and then in the early morning hours, when unable to sleep I will get up and try a little DX...Ham Radio as you know has changed so much in recent years with Cell Phones, Video Games, etc.

At one time, it was truly a teaching base that got many a youth interested in Electronics and Engineering...

Know that I appreciate your efforts very very much.

Wishing You and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas.

tom

stevebon Loc: Originally, the East Coast, now California.

Tom
I use a Gary Fong "Puffer" on my on-camera flash [Canon 50D] and it reduces the direct glare to a degree--it does attenuate the flash's light output a little, though. . Also, I sometimes suggest that the subject turn his/her head a bit towards the other person--enough to reflect the flash away from the camera. Also,if the glasses won't look distorted when doing it, I have the subject tilt the bows of the glasses up a bit [changing the angle of the lenses a bit]. This can work well with the ladies, as their hair can hide the tilted bows.
Hope this helps.