Mirror selfies

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April 25, 2018
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Hello, I was wondering if someone could point me towards a tutorial about how to distribute a more even light on a photo which has been taken using the mirror selfie and flash? im sure it must be out there but I have obviously been using the wrong search terms.

This is an example of what I am talking about :-

Thanks in advance!

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Marja de Klerk

Inspiring

Hi Lippa,

Sorry to hear about your loss. Unfortunately there is no way to restore a photo like the one you show here. It is possible though, if there is a little bit of the face visible on the photo.

lippaAuthor

Participant

Thanks for answers, but apologies for not making my question more clear. There are many photos which I wanted to try and clean up which have been taken in a similar way to the example I posted above.This is a common technique that young people use on their social media to hide their face.

My niece passed away earlier this year and I was hoping I might be able to improve the lighting on several of them so that my sister may have more photos to remember her daughter by. If there is nothing I can do with them, then so be it but thought I would at least look into it.

Thanks again

Norman Sanders

Legend

I am sorry to read of your loss and wish I could help you but there is no information in the flare area that could be salvaged and not much in the balance of the image to recover.

Simmer1

Community Expert

Hi Lippa,

I agree with Giordano - ACP Italytaking it's all cause prevention, so selfies in front of a mirror with the flash on creates too much work to fix.

Try opening up the blinds if you can and turning the flash off altogether and see how it turns out.

I hope this helps,

Sim