eyeglass glare and other fun things

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lincoln

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So, I am editing a freelance piece two older sister sitting at a table looking through photo album's talking about their family history and growing up together. Certainly not the most exciting but paying work. Camera A is a static straight on two shot of both women, Camera B handheld moving around picking up B roll CU women, hands, albums, and husband a watching on. I will scan in and cut to individual photos, add some movemonvet.

Problem one,
poor lighting,
skin tone is bad pale little detail,
background color orange or to dark,
bad eyeglass glare on one of the women anytime she is looking straight ahead, when she turns to the other women fine, well not fine but...

Problem B,
the framing matched with the color, makes it so your eyes are not drawn towards the sisters. mostly the float up to the top of the frame.
I have triad using a wide-screen filter 2.35:1 that helps, but also really shows how poorly light the faces of the sisters are.

so any ideas and anything would be cool
 
Well if you are planning on reshooting... there a few things you could do...

I'm assuming you're working with a dvx? Yes? You should definitely do white balancing with white cards... play around with the color temp settings on your camera... once you decide on the best-looking shot, move on to your glares.

You said there are glares when the girl's head is pointed directly at the camera... where is the light coming from? Do you have a pro light kit? An on-camera light? Lamps?
Move those around.

If you have just one light, move it from straight on, to up and to the side.

Play around with the lighting at your location to minimalize those glares. Also, to separate your subjects from the bg, get some house plants or something in the background, and get a backlight on your subjects... that should improve the shot greatly.


Give us some detail about your lighting set up, equipment you have and the type of location you're at... and we can help you out.
 
thank you for the reply, unfortunately this cannot be re-shot sister are from different states. I was given the tapes and asked to edit, so only have what I have to work with. which is not the best .
 
There aren't any tricks for removing glare in post -- it will be there.

Can you post a frame grab on another image hosting website and link to it here so we can try get a better idea of what you're working with?

A picture is worth a thousand words, as you're well aware. Help us, help you.

best-
Brian
 
So did they shoot it? Or did you?

if it was them that shot it, there's nothing you can do about it... just make the best of the edit.
 
No they had someone in their family shoot it, I am trying to make the best of the edit. though my color correction skills are not the best, for fixing the skin tone.
The sound is good so when I cut to the photos all is well but cutting back hurts the eyes.

this is my first thread, long time reader, thank you for the help
 
lincoln said:
Brian,
I am not sure how, I exported one but posting not sure?
Click to expand...

Try this. Setup an account at www.pbase.com, then upload the picture, get the link, and post the link here. If you use this format:
url]
without the spaces, it will show up as a picture instead of a link.

I've been in situations like yours before, where I've had to make the best of poorly lit footage with bad audio. Pays the bills, and oftentimes much quicker than "real" clients do. There isn't much you can do, unfortunately. I mean, if there were, then nobody would bother gathering good shots in the first.

However, I've found that a "diffusion" plug in goes a long way towards smoothing out facial features on lousy images, amongst other benefits.

I hope this helps.
 
Here's an idea.

Ohio.jpg

OhioCC.jpg

Crank the gamma, add a little color glow, a dark gradual, a blur gradual, and then BAM!
... still stinks !
 
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