talent wearing glasses?

[nycineaste]

how do you do this without getting bad reflections of lights, etc. Do you pop out the lenses? Does that fool ppl?

 

[jghenderson]

I believe there is a coating you can have put on lenses that greatly reduces reflections. I doubt popping out the lenses would work, it would be obvious unless you were very wide.

 

[Paul F]

Look at big feature films. You will see lights reflected in the glasses.

Example - A Few Good Men - Car scene, Night - Lt. Kaffee in the front and Lt. Markinsen in the back. They used lights on dimmers to simulate passing store fronts. I watched the movie several times and never noticed them. But the last time I watched, I was looking at the lighting. Clear as can be, you can see the lights going on and off in Lt. Markinsen's glasses.

When I see glasses with the lenses missing, it is obvious and distracting.

 

[Shooter]

how do you do this without getting bad reflections of lights, etc. Do you pop out the lenses? Does that fool ppl?

Do you have an example of an "issue" in this regard?

Some thing I constantly direct talent to do...is "drop your chin". I light them considering this will be done. ( It looks betterfor them ... if they do so... and it helps me light them properly)

Next... your light source needs to be "angled/directed" well..

THere is no need to see light sources reflected in "glasses" and also have the wearers lit properly..

 

[RyanT]

Walk them in closer and raise them up and tilt them down. The more angle you have on them the sooner the reflections will go away. You just have to find a nice balance of this and how the light will actually hit their face.

 

[j1clark@ucsd.edu]

how do you do this without getting bad reflections of lights, etc. Do you pop out the lenses? Does that fool ppl?

There are some shots where anti-reflective coatings are 'obvious'. But often lighting and head/glasses angling eliminates the major sources of reflections.