Sorry about the break. I was busy photographing a school dress rehearsal and then straight into backstage photos of the performance nights – one of my favorite types of photography especially when you get an amazing performance.
Anyway, here are some low-key selfies. The aim here isn’t only to tell the world I should probably invest in new and better shirts, but also to talk about glasses. Glasses love to reflect flash. To be clear, sometimes you want that. I love that in low key shots, but sometimes you don’t want it at all. There are two immediate tricks to deal with glass reflections. One is demonstrated here and one I will tell you about and assume you can follow.
The first trick is simple: move the direction of the flash until it is out of the line of sight. At first this will take some adjustment but as time goes on you just get a feel for it. But notice as I adjusted my head for these photos the flash reflection moved around on my glasses. For the final shot there is no reflection. Of course, the obvious response is that only half my head has light on it – simply use a reflector for the other side or put another flash on the other side. The downside to this is that you lose that catch light in the eye (or the light reflection of the flash in your eyes). That brings us to the other solution.
The other solution, and one that is often used on TV and in movies, is to take the lenses out of your glasses. Then you get “glasses,” a catch light in your eyes, and no light reflecting in glasses lenses. The problem here is that if your subject likes frameless lenses then that’s not really an option. But do try it and notice how well it works.
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