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Glasses

  • 01-10-2010 8:34pm
    #1
    midonogh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭


    My beautiful daughter has recently been prescribed glasses. I would welcome any advice, dos & don'ts for taking pictures of someone wearing glasses. Cheers
    midonogh


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  • #2
    PCPhoto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,584 ✭✭✭PCPhoto


    are you serious ?

    DON'T make a young child self conscious about her/his glasses for the sake of a photo.

    I know a politician in Cork - who has a set of frames for when he is photographed - he switches from glasses to an empty set of frames just incase the flash reflects in the glass (his glasses are fairly thick)

    my advice is take pics of your child with her glasses on - dont make an issue of it - if the pic isn't perfect ....so what !!!

    - try turning off the flash so you are less likely to get shine marks on the glasses....or if you must use flash try not to make it direct - most of the time it doesnt matter...take loads of pics.


  • #3
    pixbyjohn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,250 ✭✭✭pixbyjohn


    Worth a look
    http://japanorama.co.uk/2009/02/06/flash-photography-photographing-people-with-glasses/


  • #4
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,015 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    midonogh wrote: »
    My beautiful daughter has recently been prescribed glasses. I would welcome any advice, dos & don'ts for taking pictures of someone wearing glasses. Cheers
    midonogh

    I wear glasses as do most of the 'kids' in my family and we have done since we were small nippers. I've never heard of anyone needing to shoot someone who wears glasses in a different way.

    As has been pointed out just photograph your daughter as you would normally and enjoy the end result.


  • #5
    mehfesto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭mehfesto


    Jesus lads, overreactions all over the shop here!
    I imagined the question was about reflections, making sure the eyes arent darkened by the shadow of the frame, where they can rest their head without squishing the glasses and raising them up. etc.

    That was hardly a warm welcome to the forum!


  • #6
    midonogh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭midonogh


    jaysus lads woah!! I suppose this is the danger of posting on a forum rather than having a conversation.

    Mehfesto has it exactly right and many thanks to pixbyjohn as this is was what I was looking for.
    cheers
    midonogh


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  • #7
    Heebie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭Heebie


    If you're taking photos of someone who's got glasses on that don't have an anti-glare coating, then try to be shooting at an angle of more than 10-15 degrees or so off from the perpendicular of the plane of the glasses (if you're using a flash.)
    off the the side, above, or below, or any (possible) combination thereof should be fine. (It would be a bit tough to be 10% above and 15% below.) ;)


  • #8
    ThOnda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,699 ✭✭✭ThOnda


    As posted above, shooting in slight angle when using flash and using polariser if possible. Try to always see the pupil of the eye - don't let the frame to dover it, it looks a bit spooky :cool:


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