Glare on Glass

[Frank Schmidt]

The challenge here is to avoid glare on the curved glass plate from the light that you use to light the scene. Since this is a dark studio you can apply light to each element and from different angles. You need light on the plate to show off the woven pine needle work but if you hit it from the direction of the camera lens (like if you use an on-camera flash) then the bounce back glare will ruin the image.

With the tight aperature and low ISO you've got time to work and apply flash light from above and left of the glass so the reflection is directed down and behind the grape bowl . This is why the grape bowl is there, to block the glass glare on the plate while you're lighting the pine-needle work.

The lamp wick reflection, I can't do anything about that; it's going to be there unless you remove the glass plate during the exposure and then light the oil lamp but that introduces even more problems.


f/20,77 seconds, ISO 100 , 50mm lens.

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