Timeline for How can I photograph reflective surfaces without the camera being visible?
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| Nov 29, 2016 at 14:29 | comment | added | scottbb♦ | @benrudgers lol. I'd shake my head, but I've made more expensive decisions for lesser justifications. I'm certainly not one to lecture on this count! =) | |
| Nov 29, 2016 at 14:01 | comment | added | user50888 | @scottbb But then I wouldn't wind up with new awesome optics. | |
| Nov 29, 2016 at 13:06 | comment | added | scottbb♦ | If you have pixels to spare (i.e., don't mind cropping), you can try this out with just a wide angle lens, without any shift capability or shift adapters. Setup your lighting as you would, and point your camera perpendicular to the surface. But offset your camera so that the area you want to capture is offset to one side in the viewfinder, or towards a corner, such that the camera's reflection is not in the crop area. Then after taking the image, just crop the photo to that area. Effectively, that is the same result as a shifted lens. | |
| Nov 29, 2016 at 12:16 | comment | added | Rafael | Yeap, good tip ben rudges!. @10 Replies, keep in mind that this is to complement. The light setup not only is to get rid of the reflection, but to increase the texture of your imperfections. | |
| Nov 29, 2016 at 2:38 | comment | added | user50888 | @10Replies A medium or large format film camera with a bellows is another option for achieving the same sort of photographic effect. | |
| Nov 29, 2016 at 2:21 | comment | added | 10 Replies | Oh wow! Thats pretty cool. I will look into this. Its a bit more expensive than a lighting setup, but would be cool to include in my arsenal of lenses | |
| Nov 29, 2016 at 2:07 | history | answered | user50888 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |