on the polarizer.gusnelsonphotography wrote: A polarizer should help with the reflections. You also might want to try different angles for your shot. Can't really help you with removing reflections after the shot.
Get a sheet of black foamcore (or poster board). Cut an opening just larger enough for your lenses.If you make the opening exactly the right size you won't have to hold the board. Shoot through the opening and there will be nothing to reflect back to the camera.Ednra wrote: A polarizer will only help when certain conditions are met. The reflection must be a somewhere near a 45 degree angle. When you shoot directly into the surface a polarizer will be of little or no help.
The only practical fix is to take control of the environment. Arrange the shooting site so that there is absolutely nothing that is not a deep black on the camera side of the slab within the range where the reflections are coming from. Hang a black fabric drape behind the camera, use a black tripod, a black camera, and either where black or use a remote release and stand way to the side.
Baydream wrote:
Get a sheet of black foamcore (or poster board). Cut an opening just larger enough for your lenses.If you make the opening exactly the right size you won't have to hold the board. Shoot through the opening and there will be nothing to reflect back to the camera.Ednra wrote: A polarizer will only help when certain conditions are met. The reflection must be a somewhere near a 45 degree angle. When you shoot directly into the surface a polarizer will be of little or no help.
The only practical fix is to take control of the environment. Arrange the shooting site so that there is absolutely nothing that is not a deep black on the camera side of the slab within the range where the reflections are coming from. Hang a black fabric drape behind the camera, use a black tripod, a black camera, and either where black or use a remote release and stand way to the side.
Henry Peach wrote: Read the book "Light, Science & Magic". Particularly the stuff on the family of angles (or google this).
chasrich wrote:
Baydream wrote:
Get a sheet of black foamcore (or poster board). Cut an opening just larger enough for your lenses.If you make the opening exactly the right size you won't have to hold the board. Shoot through the opening and there will be nothing to reflect back to the camera.Ednra wrote: A polarizer will only help when certain conditions are met. The reflection must be a somewhere near a 45 degree angle. When you shoot directly into the surface a polarizer will be of little or no help.
The only practical fix is to take control of the environment. Arrange the shooting site so that there is absolutely nothing that is not a deep black on the camera side of the slab within the range where the reflections are coming from. Hang a black fabric drape behind the camera, use a black tripod, a black camera, and either where black or use a remote release and stand way to the side.
John are you beginning to think I am stalking you this morning?
This is a terrible scan of a print, originally shot on film.. I incorporated the reflection to make the Wall look like a piece of translucent glass..chasrich wrote: Your question reminds me of a shot that is on my bucket list. The Wall, in Washington DC is highly polished and being outside is subject to the whims of outdoor lighting. Getting the reflections out of the way might be the main challenge or... (Thinking outside the box) Make the reflection as part of the composition. In the case of the Vietnam wall I might pose a flag reflection or given a big budget how about an honor guard. OK - I might take a flag along as a prop but the honor guard would be a post production challenge.
Polarizer lens would certainly be in my arsenal when attacking the wall.
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