I’ve been watching Burn Notice a lot recently and every episode features many close up shots of actors with sunglasses. But every time I look at the reflection, I never see any film gear. Obviously, if the glasses are shot at an angle, nothing will show, but many of the close up shots involve the actors turning their faces from one side to the other. Do they edit the reflections out?
They use a polarizing filter on the camera’s lens.
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computer editing or i hear they use mirrors
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Perhaps they are shooting from a distance and are zoomed close up. Cameras are really good at that now
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Oh they use filters when they edit.
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The angle of incidence is always equal to the angle of reflection and that applies even when, as you say "the actors turn their faces". If the action axis of the actor turning his face were perpendicular to the lens axis the above rule, as you correctly implied, would come into effect and the camera’s reflection in the sunglasses would be "picked up" by the camera’s lens BUT by changing the angle of the camera slightly (either just below OR above the perpendicular), the image of the camera will still reflect away from the camera lens and you would have managed to avoid the nasty reflection.
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Film school, 1985 – 1988, and film making was still celluloid.
I see a notice about sunglasses and free glasses of firmoo.com,it seems the image of the camera will still reflect away from the camera lens and you would have managed to avoid the nasty reflection.
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They use a polarizing filter on the camera’s lens.
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