Removing reflections?

[herrickphoto]

Hi, hoping someone can help me with this. I'm a portrait photographer but just took some product shots of this lamp for a designer and unfortunately, the whole studio and all my lights are reflected in it! Anyone know of a photoshop process I can use to get rid of the hot lights/reflection but not lose the look of the lamp. Photo can be found at http://www.herrickphoto.co.uk/lamp.html
Thanks for any and all help!

Lynn

[admirable]

tricky one, above my skill level.

[Preacher]

I wonder if you would get less reflection if you shot it against a lighter background?

[EdinburghGary]

Is this not what a Circular Polarizer is for? Also, should you not use a light tent which allows the studio to illuminate your product without the reflections?

I am stabbing in the dark to be fair.

Gary.

[andrewc]

Next time put a screen up behind you. Personally I'd try to reshoot if possible.

[cowasaki]

About 3-4 mins with photoshop gave me this:

http://www.upgradeyourmac.co.uk/pictures/lamp.jpg

I cleaned up the white bowl at the same time. Its not perfect but if it was your own picture you would spend a little more time over it.

[herrickphoto]

Thanks for your help. I am so going to stick to shooting people from now on...:shrug:

[Garry79]

It is a tricky one because the lamp has to have reflections of some kind or it would just be black! I'll have a play and see what can be done.

[petebarnes]

Maybe something like this, not ideal but I did only spend 20 seconds on it, you could go a step further and clone out the lights

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/lamp1.jpg

[herrickphoto]

Wow, brilliant. Did you just use the clone tool? Much better result than I got! Thanks...:thumbs:

[Garry79]

I've had a bash too.

I've cloned out some of the more obvious reflections and darkened the rest. I then used a mask to bring back the highlights so that the shape is still recognisable.

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j35/garryure/lamp.jpg

[chameleon]

Ive heard of movie studios encasing camera etc in large black binbags, to help reduce reflections in shiney surfaces. Also a dark background behind you would help mask the shape too.

[petebarnes]

I just used the marquee tool to select two circles, (one for each glass ball) then feathered the selection by about 15-20px then used either curves or levels adjustment keeping the whites and blacks where they are but moving the mid point to darken everything else

[herrickphoto]

You guys are brilliant! I'm having some luck with the levels, but not sure what you're doing with the mask?

[EdinburghGary]

Can I ask, if this product had been shot inside a light tent, what would the results have been?

Gary.