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Title: Removing reflections
Post by: hbradshaw on July 18, 2011, 11:35:38 am

Hello:

I'm new to the forum and Lightroom.

I have a photo of a bathroom.  The photo shows the shower with a reflection of the window and the tub.  Is it possible to remove these reflections with Lightroom?  Or, can it be removed with Adobe Elements?  Or, do I have to use PhotoShop?  I attached the photo so you can see what I mean.

Thank you in advance for your assistance. :)

Title: Re: Removing reflections
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on July 18, 2011, 12:45:18 pm

Quote from: hbradshaw on July 18, 2011, 11:35:38 am

Hello:

I'm new to the forum and Lightroom.

I have a photo of a bathroom.  The photo shows the shower with a reflection of the window and the tub.  Is it possible to remove these reflections with Lightroom?  Or, can it be removed with Adobe Elements?  Or, do I have to use PhotoShop?  I attached the photo so you can see what I mean.

Thank you in advance for your assistance. :)

It won't be possible with Lightroom and I suspect it will be jolly tricky with Photoshop (impossible with my rudimentary skills, certainly).

It's a bit late, and it's a colour shot, but this is perhaps one situation in which filters aren't redundant (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=55864.0;topicseen). A polariser would have been very beneficial.

Jeremy

Title: Re: Removing reflections
Post by: hbradshaw on July 18, 2011, 01:44:47 pm

Hi,

Thank you for the reply.  I will look into getting a polarizer.  Do you have any recommendations?  I have the Nikon D5100.

Title: Re: Removing reflections
Post by: alanb on July 18, 2011, 02:07:03 pm

Greetings,

Look at [email protected]

I have their products a bit expensive but extremely high quality also.  Their polarizers are the best I've found.

All the best,
Alan

Title: Re: Removing reflections
Post by: hbradshaw on July 18, 2011, 02:10:56 pm

Thanks.  I sent them an email.  Hopefully they will have a recommendation.

Title: Re: Removing reflections
Post by: Scott Hargis on July 18, 2011, 04:28:27 pm

A polarizer might help, but I doubt that it would remove the reflection completely. Much easier to simply flag off the entire window with a big piece of black cloth.

Title: Re: Removing reflections
Post by: Tinstafl on July 24, 2011, 06:11:24 pm

Quote from: Scott Hargis on July 18, 2011, 04:28:27 pm

A polarizer might help, but I doubt that it would remove the reflection completely. Much easier to simply flag off the entire window with a big piece of black cloth.

when you shoot lots of  glass and have windows you will need a tripod and you will have to expose for various different areas of the shot.  Also you will need a black flag to flag off the glass that will reflect and then merge all the different shots with layers.  I use a rule of thumb one day shooting one day editing.