Has anyone used a lens skirt for shooting through glass?I shoot a lot of my grandchildren hockey games and sometimes get reflections and this looks like a good way to minimize or eliminate the problem.
Thanks
A lens hood right up against the glass has worked for me. Not sure what a lens "skirt" is... Did you mean to include a picture or a link to it?
I use a flexible collapsible rubber lens hood. You can place it against glass and since it's flexible you can move the camera at different angles and eliminate all glare.
A true lens skirt (e.g.
http://www.lenskirt.com ) looks like a useful tool for taking "serious" stills and videos through glass. I suggest checking on-line reviews.
Vyrrosm
Loc: East Coast - Currently Charlottesville, VA
If your budget can stand it a circular polorising filter may do the trick. Not certain if it will work with mucury vapor lights that most arenas have. I've used my poloriser filter on hundreds of shots taken out doors.
Pretty cool. Of course a rubber lens hood would work for some applications. This skirt, however, could be used for doing timelapse of a night scene from a high rise without interference from room lights-- or having someone ruin the sequence by flipping on an interior light.
Baz
Loc: Peterborough UK
I use a lens skirt sometimes. The main problem is that it can be a bit cumbersome to use. Fine in studio or controlled situations, but I'm not so sure for trying to follow and shoot at a sport event.
srron wrote:
Has anyone used a lens skirt for shooting through glass?I shoot a lot of my grandchildren hockey games and sometimes get reflections and this looks like a good way to minimize or eliminate the problem.
Thanks
most hockey rinks have strategic places around the glass where there are holes cut through, specifically for photographers... check out whether you can move to one or more of those spots during a game to take pictures.....
As mentioned above and make sure you shoot through a clean portion. LoL
A rubber lens hood does the same thing.
A rubber lens hood works the same way, very inexpensive and very versatile as a lens hood.
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