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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Need to get rid of glass reflections (or ghosting?) from picture of a picture??? | |
Bill,
Reflections can be a challenging issue to contend with, as you know. If you have or have access to the book Light, Science & Magic, there is some good read in there about handling reflections.
A few thoughts are:
See how the "copy" folks do a lighting setup
Make use of blackout / gobo materials to absorb / block extraneous light sources
Change your focal length and shooting distance (see Family of Angles in LSM).
Shoot at a slight tilt (correct in post if needed)
The key is to keep the AI=AR from getting to your lens. Then, for those AI=AR that you are not able to avoid naturally, then you either seek to block or absorb the corresponding light.
Kinda like shooting outside and the sun is flaring ... we put up our hand or hat to block the sunlight from reaching our lens directly, yet our hand is kept out of the image area.
Shooting through a black curtain / wall / cardboard to block for you and the camera can help contend with that which is on axis (inside the family of angles) with the lens as you already have considered. Likewise, a construct of block / absorb from off-axis sources viable.
The short of it is that you have to get your AI=AR such that you aren't pumping the unwanted stuff into your lens. Finding all those little buggers in an uncontrolled setting can be a trick. You may want to construct your own set so you can get the best control (thinking cardboard box & black paint @ simplicity).
HTH
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