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Topic: Avoiding reflections

This is a recent problem I discovered. Some types of bricks, for example a plain black wall, reflect a lot, seem almost like a mirror. This is in my opinion a pretty bad side effect, and I would like to know if there are some tips to avoid these reflections (apart from changing the camera perspective)? I slightly remember having read about that on some other place- something with hairspray, maybe? I would love to see some comments on that. Maybe some others have this problem as well?

- JD

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Re: Avoiding reflections

What you should do is wear black gloves it works best for me! (Like Biking Gloves) mini/wink

mini/cat

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  • Location: East Yorkshire, UK.
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Re: Avoiding reflections

He means reflections off the camera.

Straight to the Biscuits

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  • Joined: June 6, 2009

Re: Avoiding reflections

Oh mini/tongue

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Capedkid's Website

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Re: Avoiding reflections

well, if you had ALOT of time on your hands, you could simply edit it out on the computer

  • Location: Tokyo, Japan
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Re: Avoiding reflections

I covered the bit around the lens of the camera in black plasticine, which obviously doesn't reflect much.

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Re: Avoiding reflections

Depending on your camera you may be able to use a polarized lense filter, which cuts down substantially on reflections.  I think Night Owl has experimented with this some.

http://i.imgur.com/wcmcdmf.png

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Re: Avoiding reflections

Sméagol wrote:

Depending on your camera you may be able to use a polarized lense filter, which cuts down substantially on reflections.  I think Night Owl has experimented with this some.

ah ok it's interesting

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Re: Avoiding reflections

Sméagol wrote:

Depending on your camera you may be able to use a polarized lense filter, which cuts down substantially on reflections.  I think Night Owl has experimented with this some.

good idea. last year in school we got to play with those in science

  • Location: NY
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Re: Avoiding reflections

Yeah, a polarizing filter is incredibly useful, and the footage actually looks really interesting too.

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Re: Avoiding reflections

Could you elaborate a bit please Night Owl? Does the filter go in front of the camera lens? And what do you mean by it "looks really interesting"?

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Re: Avoiding reflections

i had this problem with several of my "dark atmospherics" tests. If you mean that the light is reflecting of your black wall place a black sheet of card or plastic behind the camera.Or alternativly you could re-arrange your lighting to fit the procedure.XD