It’s been a busy few weeks between First Holy Communions, Confirmations and a lot of Commercial work. I was recently back in APC Physiotherapy and Sports Clinic. A great team who really know their stuff and had everything ready for a great shoot. Hopefully you’ll be seeing new pics on their web and socials soon.
Mirrors are my nemesis. Usually it’s just the odd mirror over a fireplace and I need to make sure that neither am I in it nor does the bounce off my flash make it look weirdly bright.
But there are some places where there are mirrors everywhere. It’s a necessary part of the functionality of the space: people need to see themselves in action in order to correct their movement or posture. So physios, dance studios, karate clubs all have big mirrors.
Once you know about it, then you can work around it. And in over 200 delivered photos, there was one that I was in (and couldn’t be cropped out of):
Now it’s a minor edit but necessary enough.
I did a talk for Cork Camera Club about edits like this and it occurs to me that I could probably do about 2 hours of tricks and tips on this kind of thing – there are many little tricks to getting it right. But maybe the AI tools are all doing it now?