Taking pictures of sunglasses without a GLARE! Help!

[superfly]

Depth of Field: Using a smaller aperture with a longer exposure will help bring more of the sunglasses into focus. But using too small of an aperture can reduce overall sharpness. "Depth of Field" refers to the range of distances from ther camera that are reasonably in focus.

OK this may be a stupid question, if it is I apologize in advance.

Is the aperture controlled by changing the light meter? I have my light meter set on 1 1/3, anything beyond that washes out part of my photo.

 

[EckoZero]

What camera are you using? Most DSLRs will have an aperture priority mode (A on Nikons, Av on Canons).
Set to that and scroll down to the fastest aperture (lowest f number) that you can

 

[superfly]

Hi Superfly,


In regards to your lighting problem you could try setting the exposure compensation (EV) to compensate for the background.

Exposure compensation - how would i change this?

And as far as the other post about aperture, I use a canon and I know I have seen the Av option b4. I will try the suggestions on that and maybe that will help my pics look like they should. I know I've seen the Av option, I'll have to play around with that and see how to change it to the lowest setting.

 

[EckoZero]

Not sure how to set exposure compensation on a Canon as I'm a Nikon man myself, but there should be an option in your shooting menu to set it.

Check the manual and it should tell how to set it. Have a look, then play around with exposure compensation until the whites come out as white as you need them

 

[superfly]

Thanks Ecko. I appreciate your help. Learning a lot here. I actually can not locate the manual, I will continue looking or try to find this online. I messed around with the aperture and it does make a huge difference in the quality of the pic. Gives it much more detail I thought. Still gotta mess around with the background, but the detail seems better. This is not easy! I had no idea good pictures would be so hard!

 

[superfly]

Getting better!!! thanks to all of you!

 

[EckoZero]

The background doesn't look grey or washed out to me....
The shots are a little OOF though. Are you using your lens's autofocus?

 

[superfly]

Autofocus? Do all cameras have the autofocus ability? I have noticed that some of the smaller logos seem out of focus and turn up blurry in some of my pics. I noticed this today actually while shooting some of my X-Loops. What do I look for when trying to turn on my autofocus? Where would I find this?

 

[Christie Photo]

Hi Superfly,

Probably not the best person to be answering this but I'll give it a go!
Depth of field refers to how much of the shot is in focus - a wider depth of field leaves more of the shot in focus whereas a narrow depth of field restricts focus to smaller areas.

That's a fine description of depth of filed. I think "deep" and "shallow" are better words to use than "wide" and "narrow," but you did just fine.

I like that you used the word "restricts" since it reminds us the photographer has control over just what will come into acceptable focus. Selective focus is a very useful tool.

-Pete

 

[Twisted_Pixel]

Got round to installing an Exif viewer, so according to it, the OP is using a Canon PowerShot A630.

To the OP, I've got an IPS screen and the backdrop does not appear as grey here. Only a very slight difference to the white background of the forum interface.