Hi Alli
Thanks for your visit and kind comments.
The counter action for glass reflection is all in the angle that the camera & flash face the glass window.
If the camera face the glass square on you obviously will get a flash back. So, the trick is to ensure that the light bounce away from the lens by positioning yourself in such a place that you are pointing the camera at an angle towards the window when you press the shutter release. The more acute the angle the less bounce back you will experience. It speaks for itself then to realise that patience is of the utmost importance to get the subject at such a vantage point that you can actually shoot at this required angle. Or the other technique, which I mostly find cumbersome because it can inhibit your movement, is to keep the lens as close as possible to the glass.
Now even if you apply this technique, it is not as failsafe as it sounds. There are some other snares waiting for you. If you have an abundance of light on your side of the glass, the glass tends to glare and reflect whatever object might be near. I can guarantee you a monkey or a fish or whatever subject does not look too good with the image of a brick wall or the flowers on somebody’s dress superimposed on it. So, when you have this kind of scenario, the only solution is to be strong and pack your camera back into the bag then come back another day or at another time when the light might come from a different direction.
I hope that might be of some help.
Friendly regards.
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