Need Help:Glare

[SophieM]

Hi everyone!

I need your help! Is there anyway that I can make the glare disappear on the hand and thumb. If so, How.

Thanks, Sophie
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[Big Mike]

Glare like that, is a result of an object's characteristic called 'direct reflection'. Some objects have a lot of it (mirror) and some have almost none (white paper).

In your photo, notice how one hand has no glare, while the other has lots. The hand with glare, looks to be coated in oil or something similar. If that was the point of the photo, then the glare is what tells the viewer that there is something on the hand. But if you just wanted the hands, without the glare...then the solution is to wash that hand...because clean & dry skin doesn't have much direct reflection to it.

Another option, would be make-up. This is why people who appear on TV wear lots of make-up. It hides/changes the direct reflection characteristics, so that we don't see any glare.

Yet another option, if you do want to show that the hand is covered in something greasy, is to use a softer light source (larger and/or closer). This will still give you glare, but it will spread out the glare spots, then maybe they won't look so bad.

 

[SophieM]

Thanks, I will take another one and tell my daughter to wash her hand!!

 

[xxWesxx]

Um, im not really sure what you are asking, Is this natural glare? as a smudge or something on the lens? or is this natural Light or Alternative light? I mean, You could go out and buy a Lens Hood, tulip hoods would work more likely. Or you can do what i do, and I get a cardboard box. Make it where its covering then lens, "wrapped around the lens like a hood"

 

[TCampbell]

The "angle of incidence = angle of reflection" -- basically anything with any amount of shine to it behaves "like a mirror". And like a mirror... if you see the reflection of a light in the mirror you can either angle the mirror OR move the light so the reflection no longer appears.

A circular polarizing filter (this a filter which screws onto the end of your lens and you rotate the filter to "tune" it) is generally used to cancel out reflections -- usually these are associated with outdoor photos but they are also used indoors (common with product photography when the photographer wants to greatly reduce or eliminate reflections.) The caveat with circular polarizers is that they decrease the amount of light which can pass through the filter ... which means it will change the exposure settings.

 

[kundalini]

Without knowing what your light source is, as a cheap alternative, some difussion material will help reduce the amount of reflection. Be it a bed sheet, tee shirt or clear shower curtain. Some material between the light and the subject.