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Tutorial 5: Better Reflections
posted by brokenarts, Jan 4, 2006 10:48 AM — 54 commentsWhen photographing highly reflective objects (like metal of glass) it's important not to reflect yourself on the object surface.
How to hide you and the camera?
Take a white sheet of paper and make an hole on it. Place the sheet in front of the camera (look at the picture below).
With sheets of different colours you can also make creative reflections.
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1. posted by Freeman_DC, Jan 4, 2006 11:12 AMas genius as simple. thx :)
2. posted by n_yfe, Jan 6, 2006 11:25 AM
thanks, that is a great tip!
3. posted by Chris2, Jan 6, 2006 10:46 PM
simple and great! thanks for showing!
4. posted by ferraresso, Jan 8, 2006 8:59 PM
Hey man !
less is more !!!
5. posted by greekgod, Jan 11, 2006 6:19 PM
ingeniusly and deceptively simple! thank you so much!
6. posted by ellesdee, Jan 25, 2006 2:12 PM
simple. powerful. effective. thanx.
7. posted by greensmoke, Jan 28, 2006 3:21 PM
very usefull.... thanks for shairing your experience
8. posted by VroomBroom, Jan 29, 2006 5:21 PM
awsome tut! I will use this one for sure!
9. posted by davybee, Jan 30, 2006 8:02 PM
Such a good idea. I really felt dumb for not realising this myself.
10. posted by Jedi_5ive, Feb 2, 2006 7:14 PM
Love it!
11. posted by pushbeyond, Feb 6, 2006 3:05 AM
So that's the trick-of-the-trade!! What a simple method, beats photoshopping yourself out! Just in time for my next project where I'll be dealing with this exact task. Thanx a lot Davide!
12. posted by SteveFE, Feb 10, 2006 9:27 PM
Thank you! Great tip.
13. posted by smurf_the, Feb 13, 2006 11:29 PM
i wish i had thought of that
14. posted by cc_, Feb 14, 2006 7:24 PM
good idea ^.^
thanx ;)
15. posted by ruisousa, Feb 23, 2006 8:43 PM
I already tried this and he doesen't work because the reflection of the camera objetive appears in the same.
Good attempt!
16. posted by sunil_06, Mar 3, 2006 6:33 PM
relley nice it is.
17. posted by cyrack, Mar 7, 2006 6:27 PM
Well, brilliant idea... now the message must be passed on to people on eBay... unbelivable how many takes pictures nude... :-/
18. posted by cinder, Mar 17, 2006 11:21 AM
great :D
19. posted by wrhoanaz, Mar 19, 2006 11:53 PM
nice idea....never really thought of that before..cool...
thanks..
20. posted by cdw0107, Mar 20, 2006 2:57 AM
Wow, I was just thinking of how to do that on my next project. Thank You for the great tip, Im going to try it right now.
21. posted by maxius, Mar 21, 2006 5:58 AM
Just gotta make sure your light meter etc isn't affected by the fact it can't see your subject :)
22. posted by matiasro, Mar 23, 2006 9:16 PM
Nice tip there
23. posted by nexxy, May 3, 2006 6:24 PM
Freaked simple solution, gonne use it!
24. posted by ameenullah, May 5, 2006 8:56 AM
Brilliant, never thought of...
25. posted by sandra18, May 31, 2006 1:14 PM
great tip! tks
26. posted by skrasii, Jun 4, 2006 10:56 AM
Simple and amazing! :) I'll try out it some day :)
27. posted by lation789, Jul 23, 2006 4:44 PM
nice tip! never thought of that, thanks!
28. posted by feldmaus, Jul 31, 2006 11:06 AM
Nice!
29. posted by LuisFico, Aug 10, 2006 12:09 AM
You are a master at simplification, thanx a lot for all your advices!
30. posted by cyberjoe, Aug 24, 2006 8:21 AM
WOW simple yet effective technique
damn GOOD!!!!!
31. posted by ZaNuDa, Sep 6, 2006 9:32 PM
Very simple, very cheap and very effective, as usual!!! Thanks a lot for this GREAT idea!
32. posted by christeh, Sep 7, 2006 10:23 PM
This is SO helpful! Thanks for sharing your knowledge, David!
33. posted by ozzy_osb, Sep 12, 2006 1:21 PM
Simple yet good. thankx
34. posted by yankeegirl, Sep 22, 2006 9:21 PM
Awesome idea wish I'd have know it a month ago lol well at least I'll know for the future Thanks sooo much!
35. posted by stocker, Oct 16, 2006 4:22 PM
Handy solution ;)
36. posted by pexilan, Oct 17, 2006 7:21 AM
wow! whats a nice idia man.....
37. posted by fierros, Dec 23, 2006 8:50 PM
Tanks great tips
38. posted by iggoo, Jan 9, 2007 5:37 PM
the simple idea,s are the best
39. posted by geri-jean, Jan 19, 2007 10:52 PM
Very Cool !
40. posted by access_yog, Feb 19, 2007 4:36 PM
gr8 idea!
41. posted by darleneroy, Jun 14, 2007 7:30 AM
thanks for sharing that technique. I now understand why do photographer use that style coz I've seen someone doing that thing. thanks!
42. posted by joelcarv, Jun 27, 2007 12:31 PM
Good tip. Simple. Thanks.
43. posted by Taiphen, Aug 16, 2007 12:58 PM
Thank you for your tip. It will really come in handy!
44. posted by pzado, Sep 8, 2007 9:11 PM
This tip will save a lot of time :o)
45. posted by sxchuman, Sep 20, 2007 2:09 PM
great tip! tks
46. posted by blithed, Dec 2, 2007 6:15 AM
ingenious!
47. posted by pragmatic1, Mar 18, 2008 2:08 AM
What's a good method to photograph small shiny objects such as jewelery?
48. posted by butterboo, Mar 24, 2008 11:25 PM
clever! never taught of that before :)
49. posted by bbs9289, May 29, 2008 5:08 PM
Great tip! Thanks!
50. posted by raptore39, Jul 10, 2009 12:32 PM
awesome, never would have thought of that
51. posted by heidiScrem, Apr 18, 2010 5:17 AM
wow thanks
52. posted by go_gooo, May 11, 2010 7:19 AM
great tip!!! thanks
53. posted by escan, Aug 19, 2010 11:29 AM
humm!!
54. posted by zauberhexe, Apr 2, 2012 12:29 PM
wow! Tanks for the great tip!!!
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