Glasses ?
Just a quick tip today.
When shooting glasses, one of the most asked questions is how to fight the reflections in the glasses.
Well let’s first make clear that reflections are not always a bad thing, but they can be very irritating indeed, the nice thing is that if you know how to eliminate them, you can always choose to leave them in and be creative with them.
Angle of Reflection = Angle of Incidence
I really hope I have the expression right.
In the Netherlands we say “hoek van inval is hoek van uitval” 🙂
In fact it’s not that hard luckily.
Always think about light as falling in angles, when you make sure the angle is correct there will be no light reflecting back. Or in other words when you place your lights the correct way (the correct angle) you will not see reflections in the glasses.
Is it really that simple ?
Yep, sorry.
We never remove glasses, we never use Photoshop, or any other “voodoo” approach. It’s just all in the angles of the light and the way the reflection behaves. Try it out for yourself and see how easy it can be. And do remember it’s not only correct if there is NO reflection, in most cases I actually love to have some form of reflection on the glasses for the simple fact that the viewer that way will see that they are real.
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Sometimes I love to include a gridded softbox reflection in the glasses to give the viewer the sense that there really is glass in the glasses.
Awesome!
Funny that you have this now, I was either reading about it or talking to someone a little while ago, on this.nYup you got it correct “Angle of Reflection = Angle of Incidence” I did a quick Google search to confirm this.nnI will for sure try this with my new model very soon, she has a nice pair of glasses.n
Make sure to show us the images 😀
this is very good because i have struggled with glasses. i real ylike the idea of teh grid just catching the glasses ton1 and 3 are so very nice
Thanks, when you think about it, it really isn’t that hard.nIt’s just the fact that sometimes we over think stuff, making it much harder than it is :Dn
Uhm…..try children with glasses…they often have the (obviously) cheaper version and its just a nightmare! Adults go for the more expansive glasses in the glasses 🙂 and they glare a lot less…interesting article since I nearly asked a boy to remove his glasses the other day,but then it wouldn’t be him anymore because he is who he is with them.
It doesn’t matter if they have different glasses, the angle of reflection stays the same. The only difference is that WHEN it reflects it will look different. The way to prevent the reflection should work however on all surfaces, windows, glasses, cars etc.