When And Where To Use Lens Hoods

2nd Dec 2011

By Nikita Morris, Features Writer at ePHOTOzine

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The main and most prominent use for a lens hood is in situations where you find yourself in bright sunlight but you can use it to cutdown on reflection and glare you get from glass. For example, in zoos, when shooting through windows or when shooting through glass display cases in museums, glare from your flash and reflections on the glass can spoil your shot. Using a lens hood often means that the glare that bounces back can't get in to your lens as easily, meaning that you can get a much better quality picture. If you don't have a lens hood to hand, try cupping your free hand around the lens. 

If it's raining, a lens hood can help protect the lens from rain drops. This is especially effective if it is spitting or when the rain is falling straight down. 

Lens hoods start at around £20, depending on your camera make and model, which makes them a useful tool that you can have in your camera bag for a relatively cheap price. Or, if you're lucky, your camera may have come with one in the box. 

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• autozoom 3rd December 2011 15:40

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  That is just insane to buy lens hood for 20pounds starting. It is in the end just a peace of plastic, on ebay you can get third party hoods just for fraction of that price.