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Jan 1, 2016 10:50:53   #
FredCM Loc: Central Illinois
 
Scott Kelby recommends this trick in one of his books.

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Jan 1, 2016 11:16:34   #
BuckeyeBilly Loc: St. Petersburg, FL
 
PHOTOBILL71 wrote:
Morning,
I've been working on in photo shoots folks on how to keep the reflection of lights out of the persons glasses. I've tried getting them to slightly move head down, up, sideways, but many many times still get the reflections. I try to work with my key light at 45 degrees to my left side...any one have any surefire suggestions or techniques to keep the glare down?? Attached I hope is a shot recently but notice small glare at top of glasses.


For what it's worth, here is a tutorial from Adorama:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS0zV6czunk

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Jan 1, 2016 11:31:03   #
chfrus
 
Easy use glasses without the lens. I always keep a tray of frames.

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Jan 1, 2016 11:46:39   #
Jackdoor Loc: Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
 
You can also give useful advice to your subject- suggest that next time they buy new glasses, they get anti-reflection coating. It improves the appearance in photographs, but it also improves their vision a great deal in sunlight or around bright artificial lights. Well worth the extra, and an anti-scratch coating is then often free.

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Jan 1, 2016 13:03:25   #
georgevedwards Loc: Essex, Maryland.
 
Another option is to use small "spot" lights instead of the big square light source when photographing people with glasses. The reflection will be a small circular spot of white which can be easily cloned out or you can use the healing brush etc.
PHOTOBILL71 wrote:
Morning,
I've been working on in photo shoots folks on how to keep the reflection of lights out of the persons glasses. I've tried getting them to slightly move head down, up, sideways, but many many times still get the reflections. I try to work with my key light at 45 degrees to my left side...any one have any surefire suggestions or techniques to keep the glare down?? Attached I hope is a shot recently but notice small glare at top of glasses.

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Jan 1, 2016 13:06:33   #
georgevedwards Loc: Essex, Maryland.
 
Orientals used to wear glasses with plain glass or without lenses to look more intelligent. I was under the impression it was to offset Western bias. Maybe they still do.
jerryc41 wrote:
That was my initial thought, although I wondered how the photo would look.

I recently saw a science series from Korea (I think). The narrator wore black-rimmed glasses with no lenses in them. It was very strange.

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Jan 1, 2016 13:08:42   #
georgevedwards Loc: Essex, Maryland.
 
What trick is that, by the way?
FredCM wrote:
Scott Kelby recommends this trick in one of his books.

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Jan 1, 2016 13:38:12   #
drizztguen77 Loc: Tualatin, OR
 
What about using a circular polarizer filter?

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Jan 1, 2016 17:49:03   #
forjava Loc: Half Moon Bay, CA
 
Feathering? Yes indeed, but what is feathering?
Answer (~8 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUaIUubgLcM

But here is the world's shortest feathering tutorial: To remove reflections, from the glass, maybe move the key light in your case slightly leftward and also slightly upward.

The feathered light on your subject should be softer after these changes, coming as it shall rather more from edges of your key light source.

Toying with such feathering can produce multiple desirable effects. For example, according to taste, you could maybe:
-Try shifting the lighting emphasis for your subject, to more above the torso, to the face, by increasing still more the upward tilt of the key light
-Try filling in with a reflector on the right; were you to adjust the reflector so that most of the reflector's light bouncing onto your subject came from an edge of the reflector you would be feathering this bounced fill light
-Take notice of how any feathering affects your background; look to separate subject from background


As you feather about, consider using a lens hood or other flag when moving a light or reflector toward your camera.
To understand why you have glare in the submitted image, see Chapter 3 of Hunter, Biver, and Fuqua.
To understand your opportunities around polarization, read beyond Chapter 3.


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PHOTOBILL71 wrote:
...I've been working on in photo shoots folks on how to keep the reflection of lights out of the persons glasses..../quote]
sometimes feathering the light will help

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Jan 1, 2016 22:04:55   #
photoguy43
 
Reflection is a problem,no doubt.If i know the model wears glasses,i will suggest they stop at the dollar store and find a pair similar to their regular glasses.Then i remove the lenses.Otherwise i shoot for a higher angle.That seems to help.

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Jan 2, 2016 02:08:46   #
fantom Loc: Colorado
 
MT Shooter wrote:
Way back when I did a lot of portraiture (70's and 80's), I hated dealing with eyeglasses. My solution was to hit the local optometrists and ask for donations of old glasses or discontinued frames. I had a collection of about 70 pair and would have my customers find a pair they liked, or were close to their actual glasses, and then shoot them in just those frames with no glass in them, problem solved. Sometimes I would actually remove the glass from a clients glasses if they were metal frames because doing so with a jewelers screwdriver was easy, I even returned their glasses to them properly cleaned as well. Eyeglass reflections were never an issue after that.
Way back when I did a lot of portraiture (70's and... (show quote)


That solution is so simple and logical that it is brilliant. I think we tend to search for complicated solutions when, with a little thought, we could find a simpler and more efficient answer like you did.

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Jan 3, 2016 11:18:28   #
ygelman Loc: new -- North of Poughkeepsie!
 
soaro77 wrote:
What about using a circular polarizer filter?

Right! Reflected light is polarized. The only thing needed is a polarizer filter on the lens that can be rotated to have its polarization perpendicular to the polarization of the reflected light coming from the eyeglasses.

Any fisherman (or, nearly any fisherman) knows to use polarized glasses to reduce the reflected light bouncing off the surface of the water.

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Jan 3, 2016 22:00:40   #
haasrw1031 Loc: Gainesville - Originally Miami Florida
 
Just raise the arms of the glasses (i.e., over the ears) just a little, and BAM!

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Jan 4, 2016 22:15:27   #
lovelylyn Loc: Fort Wayne, IN
 
Light them from the side. No glare

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Jan 7, 2016 11:37:44   #
mallen1330 Loc: Chicago western suburbs
 
PHOTOBILL71 wrote:
Morning,
I've been working on in photo shoots folks on how to keep the reflection of lights out of the persons glasses.

A quick PP attempt. I agree that avoiding the reflections in the original shot is better and easier than PP.

clone brush and soften brush
clone brush and soften brush...

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