Firstly thanks to the team for putting this section together, although it may only go toward encouraging the photographic ‘arms race’, time for a ‘strategic lens limitation treaty’ 😀
I have a fair amount of experience with Photoshop/Paint Shop Pro in doing graphic design type of work, but have never really used it for retouching/repairing photos, or at least nothing more than fiddling with brightness & contrast to bring dull colours out!
Is there any clever feature available that could lessen the effect of the window relection that spoils the right hand side of this picture (note to self, tape some paper over that window before trying this again!). I have tried selecting the light areas with a large amount of ‘feather’ and simply darkening it, but this has not been very succesful.
Just wondering if any programs have any cunning ‘short cuts’ to deal with this kind of problem?
By: darrenharbar - 10th August 2005 at 14:08
Had a quick go, I think this is the best I could do.
Used the Dodge Tool on the effected areas, and gave the rest of the photo a quick go to help it blend in. Then saturated it to put back some of the colour that the dodge tool took out, and contrasted slightly to make it look a little more natural.
With a bit more time to spare you could probably use this method much more precisely.
Or clone the area like so (done very quickly due to time!)
By: Moggy C - 9th August 2005 at 20:27
Aha…. I’ve just remembered a tip Hairyplane told me. Shoot through a lady’s stocking. Never tried it myself but sounds interesting, esp. if you have to remove before use! 😀
But if you remove them when shooting a2a won’t your legs get very cold?
Moggy :p
By: BlueRobin - 9th August 2005 at 19:05
Aha…. I’ve just remembered a tip Hairyplane told me. Shoot through a lady’s stocking. Never tried it myself but sounds interesting, esp. if you have to remove before use! 😀
By: whalebone - 9th August 2005 at 17:50
Further to my above I don’t think a polarising filter quite the answer here, the suggestion of using a towel or a coat would be a much better idea 😀
By: tenthije - 9th August 2005 at 17:09
To prevent these, get a rubber lense-hood. This hood you can press against the window to prevent any reflections from getting into your lense. The reason for a rubber hood is so you can move your camera a bit around.
Another option, and much cheaper, is to put the lense as close to the glass a possible, and put a towel or coat over the lense. Make sure that the towel does not get in view. I’ve seen people that had glued “spikes” on their lenshood. They use this to put their towel on and make sure the towel falls well outside the range of the lense.
By: whalebone - 9th August 2005 at 16:48
Spooky 😮
A pal of mine has just passed on one of those e mails that do the rounds every now and again, this one is titled “how not to photograph your cat”.
A nice photo of one of those hairless siamese cat type things, with an unfortunate reflection of the trouserless cameraman in the window glass 😀
I’ll errr…try and make it decent and put it up (as it where).
By: Will J - 9th August 2005 at 16:06
Cheers for the advice, I will have a go on the original using your ideas. As far as stopping the effect in the fist place it really is as simple as covering over the opposite window (and closing the curtains on tose that have them- Percival Pembroke)
By: BlueRobin - 9th August 2005 at 14:05
When taking the shot, would using a polarised filter help remove the window reflection?
Great pic, Will.
By: wannabe pilot - 9th August 2005 at 14:00
Had a quick go, I think this is the best I could do.
Used the Dodge Tool on the effected areas, and gave the rest of the photo a quick go to help it blend in. Then saturated it to put back some of the colour that the dodge tool took out, and contrasted slightly to make it look a little more natural.
With a bit more time to spare you could probably use this method much more precisely.
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August 9, 2005 at 1:42 pm