Need help with bad reflections
I'm supposed to take daytime photos of a giant marine aquarium surrounded by huge windows. The aquarium is shaped like a tube, so light reflects in all sorts of crazy angles. The whole building is glass, so there is really no way to eliminate the daylight from reflecting off the aquarium. I've tried a circular polarizer and it seems to do nothing much at all. It was a fairly cheap polarizer that I used on my Nikon D50. I'm guessing the shape of the aquarium is part of the problem.
Does anyone have any advice on how to reduce these reflections. Are there more effective polarizing filters for this sort of situation. Or am I basically screwed and relegated to using Photoshop? I've though of shooting the aquarium at dusk (thus reflection free) and basically photoshopping it into a daylight shot of the surroundings.
Here's what I'm dealing with:
Does anyone have any advice on how to reduce these reflections. Are there more effective polarizing filters for this sort of situation. Or am I basically screwed and relegated to using Photoshop? I've though of shooting the aquarium at dusk (thus reflection free) and basically photoshopping it into a daylight shot of the surroundings.
Here's what I'm dealing with:
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A good polarizing filter should help, but will cost a lot of light.
The better trick if you can do it, is to use a soft lens hood ( rubber ones are great for this) and put it right up against the glass wall of the aquarium, thereby omitting all reflections. But if you have to shoot from distance, this won't help.
Photoshopping out a bunch of reflections is gonna be a very big job, and may not look that great when you're done either.
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Sometimes, a building with a lobby like this will have a mechanical shade. If that's the case, putting the shades down will help. If this is the route, make sure the shades are equally down so things don't bad.
My best piece of advice is to come to the building at various times during the day. I'm guessing the early morning will give you enough light and limit the reflections.
Last, I'd like to suggest working with a tilt-shift lens. It will help with the curving seen at the right of the image.
Best of luck to you.
I think that could work at least
You need a large "flag" to kill the reflection. This is a typical issue when shooting the glass, no polarizer can help here, only strategically placed gobos.