in this video
our share my top tips for shooting through windows without getting all
those nasty reflections
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and in this video I'm gonna show you how to photograph through
old glass windows well now
seeing reflections so I'm here in New York City and I'm
at the yard hello on the 22nd floor my room
and you can see why want to photograph through the glass windows Jeff
have a look at map view absolutely incredible from
up here trouble is if I did take a picture I'm all set to happen
you know your snap away on the back and a camera may look
fine but not least are getting close to the start seeing
things aren't quite as good there's an alt reflections things reflected in the
glass in
something even looks a bit like my my face on my hand is just not great
site for my simple tips and your reflection problems will be
almost completely solved
tech number one really obvious no flash
well when I say no flash I mean no on-camera flash
okay so the little pop-up flash that a No now because if you take a picture
with the pop-up flash on
well it doesn't take a genius to figure out that
is never gonna be a great shot
tip number two is to clean the glass really well
and not just right in front of the camera a right way across particularly
if using a wide angle lens you'll be surprised how far it stretches
now baby obviously you can clean the glass on the inside but
I'm 22 floors up there's no way I can clean the glass
on the outside and these windows don't open so there's not much I can actually
date
now in those circumstances tip number three
is to shoot when the Sun is not directly
onto the glass because that will show the data and the grime on the outside
that you can't control
similarly it is had a bit of an angle that's not good either
in the white for the Sun to go down or wait for the Sun to be behind you
so you're shooting with the Sun on your back the number four is really if you're
shooting and evening shot lol I
situation ton of the lights in your room
if you can to minimizing at reflections you get on the
inside pane in the glass side by doing that you find that your reflections will
be greatly reduced
annual evening nighttime shots will look a hundred percent better
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close out with your camera if you can
so Robin shooting from back here which gives me problems with the reflections
I just lean my lens Aden to
actually touches the class the area in which I'm gonna see reflections is
massively reduced
and therefore demand reflections are gonna be reduced as well
just a word of caution no if you're doing this
when you're photographing through a window or something like an airplane
or train or something with his is movement and shaking
if you rest your lens against the glass you run the risk it
increased camera shake because that shaking
a bitch is back it off just a half inch or so to reproduce and remove that risk
say the next it is really about the angle
which you price the class now ideally to minimize reflection
don't go for the tango try and shoot straight on
to the glass like that the more directly even look through it
the less reflection you get more oblique your angle more reflections you get
but the travel a is I really don't like the look at the direction of a house not
bad
but I much prefer rip 1 I'm over here
shooting at that angle trouble is that the angolan getting a Tomah reflections
from all this white stuff the
the window frame the whenever this this door is made out of
its all reflecting in the class so you need
that black bag trick what the black bag check
well match a black bag is just anything that's in black
max black material is i do. and this well this isn't anything special we come
by the said Adorama
it's just that my black jacket and it's not a one-off
but said this is mine say this is the the jacket I've been wearing around New
York Robin
walking around here and being black is perfect
let me show you so without them jacket
now I'm getting some reflections with the jacket well what I'm gonna do
first though is to put my camera into self time and I'd say we're going to the
two-second
self-timer just give me a moment or two and then I'm gonna put this up
against this white window frame and this is where I'm getting the reflections
from
we can maybe see you can see it this window frame here the sunlight
but left a bit is coming through the window reflecting off this white
off-the-wall and that's what I'm seeing say that on the cover with my jacket
so let's get that right up against that white to reduce fat
and then the other side income right way across about just stop a camera
bring out across and they
guy have a look at the difference without a black bag
reflections but with my black jacket reflections are gone
so my last hit really concerns
shooting through glass but in a different circumstances so let's say
you not at the hotel here in New York in on the 22nd floor you're in something
like
why don't know and Aquarium where you can switch off the background lies to
reduce the reflections creepy switch off the lights
alarms go and then security comes in it throws me out
me or something like that what you need is to try and minimize the reflections
by using
a filter and they see is this is just my polarizing filter that he mind
and I carry this around the all the time because it's not only handy for all the
things that polarizing filters do
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load information at polarizing filters but it can also be used to reduce
reflections
on class it not a foolproof solution
but it can be a help so there we go if you follow a simple steps you may find
that your reflections are massively reduced and
even completely removed not gonna see more videos from me and the other great
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