When taking pictures at night I have been noticing reflections of the lights in the sky. In the picture below it is very obvious but usually it isn't that bad. Is there a way to reduce or avoid these reflections?
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When taking pictures at night I have been noticing reflections of the lights in the sky. In the picture below it is very obvious but usually it isn't that bad. Is there a way to reduce or avoid these reflections?
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Jason
Do you have a UV filter on the lens? If so I'd take it off and try again to see if that is the culprit (i think it is quite likely).
Other than the reflection in the sky, this is an awesome shot, super great detail!!!
Call me a weido but i think the reflection in the sky makes the shot more mysterious. But I can see why you don't want this regularly, lol. Thoughton's suggestion is a good one indeed, I agree.
Yes I do have a UV filter on this lens. I didn't even think that that may cause it. I was wondering why my zoom lens didn't have that reflection but that filter is just a clear filter without uv protection. Thank you for the suggestion Thoughton. If I get a chance to test it out this weekend I will post the results.
Thanks,
Jason
This is a classic symptom of a filter being used at night. This happens all the time, though, but at night it’s often a lot more prominent. During the day, the real image usually overwhelms the ghost image.
You can minimize or possibly eliminate this by using a filter that has really good antireflection coatings. It doesn't matter that one filter is UV and the other is just clear.
Just take the UV filter off the lens. It's just degrading your images. If you are worried about dropping your lens and breaking it put a lens hood on it.
+1 to this. An expensive multicoated UV filter will reduce this effect, but sometimes it will happen anyway. Hard to predict, and very annoying when it happens. For what it's worth (probably not much :)) I use a Hoya Pro 1 UV filter on my main walkabout lens and I have yet to experience this personally, although when shooting into the sun I have had flare-related problems (receding queues of giant green hexagons) which I believe were exaggerated by the filter (I've been told that it is light reflecting off the front element onto the _back_ of the filter). In rare cases you even get reflections off your camera sensor onto the back of the filter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ron Cardinale
