Red camera glare from sun
- Thread starter Acabral886
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Graham could be - and probably is - right on target. While I do not use a lens hood - and do not have the red sun glare problems you are experiencing - other H pilots do and depend upon them. Definitely checkout the link he provided. Could be a cheap solution to your problem.
PatR
Premium Pilot
Sun flaring occurs when the lens is aimed at a location where the sun is in a position a little higher than the upper edge of the lens. With the sun just a little more elevated or above and slightly left or right of the lens we encounter propeller shadowing, or flicker.
Photography demands the photographer be aware of the position of the sun or bright lighting relative to the lens and subject to make adjustments as necessary. Filters and hoods can be extremely helpful but will not completely eliminate the need to change lens positions or shooting angles to eliminate the effects of bright lighting.
Photography demands the photographer be aware of the position of the sun or bright lighting relative to the lens and subject to make adjustments as necessary. Filters and hoods can be extremely helpful but will not completely eliminate the need to change lens positions or shooting angles to eliminate the effects of bright lighting.
Good luck. In the end, if I were you I'd go on ahead while keeping what PatR said firmly planted in your head. His experience and expertise in these matters are, in my opinion, ALWAYS grounded in fact and, more importantly, are backed up by a wide range of hands-on, first-hand experiences. NOTHING teaches us better than experience.
Sunshields are great but I'm sure they come with their own set of drawbacks, and lense filters can and do sometimes leak, posing their own set of problems, too. Filming properly, using the light to your advantage instead of trying to fight it, does seem like the path of least resistance, something I always prefer to try first. Moreover, it would lessen your dependency on extra photo equipment.
Either way, please let us know how things shake out for you...and consider posting some images, too, of where you fly and what you shoot. I'm always eager to see other pilot's work. Safe flying and happy filming and photo taking.
FlushVision
Premium Pilot
I had a real problem with sun flaring while I was doing a job filming a protest march on behalf of the organizers in early January. I knew I was flying in completely the wrong position to avoid the flaring but there wasn't much I could do about it:
The protest meeting was held in a local park but due to the park authorities being unavailable for contacting for a permission to fly in the park (Christmas and New Year's holidays), I had to fly out from a farmer's field next to the park where I did obtain a permission from the farmer. Unfortunately, though, that left me with a restricted area of operations and I had to do the shoot with a low sun behind the protesters.
I did manage to get a few minutes of good footage by angling the camera to a position where it eliminated most of the flaring and it was enough to satisfy the client...but only just. It would have been much better if I could have got a permission to fly from within the park, thus affording me the opportunity to shoot from a completely different angle and, in turn, having much better footage, but the job just happened to be given to me at just the wrong time of year to get the necessary permissions and also at a time of year that the sun was low in the sky.
Even though I know what I must do to get a good shot sometimes a restriction of the area of operations conspire against a good shot
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