Too Much Glare

We’ve been using the same photographer for about 3-4 years now. It never fails, she always seems to find perfect pictures among chaos. We were unable to get family photos done around Christmas, so when her Spring Mini Sessions opened, we scheduled one.

One thing has changed since the last family photo session – three of us are wearing glasses. For the first time ever, I was a bit disappointed with the photos. About half of them had glare on our glasses. Honestly, I’m not sure if our photographer’s assistant did the editing or not, but I was surprised at how many of them had glare.

I attempted to download a few photo apps to see if I could fix them, but every last app wanted credit card information or a subscription for 6 months. I wasn’t about to do that. I attempted to use Gemini and Chat GPT to see if they might be able to get rid of it, and it was hit and miss. One program removed my daughters eye glasses completely along with her eyebrows!

I did drop a note to the photographer, and perhaps she has a way to get rid of it. I’m not sure. I hope so. As I said, we’ve been pretty loyal customers and I hope there is something she can do.

There were some good pictures, though. There was no real bunny this year, but the kids did get one to snuggle.

As difficult as it is to get these to to sit still, there were a couple nice ones of the two of them.

Sadly, it was the family photos that the glare played a factor in. Too many people with glasses, perhaps? A couple of these were run through AI, but the glare is still there.

She had the kids take a few together with Sam, but the glare really messed those up. By the time it was my turn to get a couple with the kids, Andrew was kind of done with pictures. Ella, however, is always happy to get pictures with me. She also always knows how to make a dad feel special.

I really hope that our photographer reaches out. I have a couple friends who take pictures, but I don’t know if they’d be able to correct them. Fingers crossed.