Beginer in Photography

[VickiLynn]

I am new to the photography business and need a little assistants. When I use my studio light on someone that has glasses on the glasses capture the light how can I avoid that. I am just having trouble trying to figure out where and how to put my light for portraits can anyone help me. I really want to take good pictures.

[Trader]

Hi Vicki and welcome to DPS. I feel your pain. Here is my take on that problem. First and if at all possible, ask them to remove their glasses and it will make your life a lot simpler. If they don't want to, next we have to look at the angles. Raise the light source so the reflection of the strobe bounces away from the camera lens. OR Raise the camera so the angle of the strobe's light hitting their glasses bounces away from the camera. OR Tilt the glasses so the reflection goes out of the camera lens. And if all of the above fails, there is always Photoshop to retouch the image.

A lot of times I will take a shot of my subject with out the strobes using the same f/stop as the shot with lighting. I can use that to photoshop the glasses into another image that has the reflection.

Hope that answers your question. I'b be interested in how others handle this also.

[nobbies]

There is a good article here on Strobist which may help you

Strobist: Lighting 101: Lighting for Glasses

[Sodaman420]

Nobbies- i was actually going to suggest that myself
lol
-Tony

[nobbies]

Originally Posted by Sodaman420

Nobbies- i was actually going to suggest that myself
lol
-Tony

Great to be on the same wavelength

[VickiLynn]

Thank you I will try some of these and see if they work for me.