From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Cameras & Lenses
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Cleaning the object
- All right, we're almost ready to shoot our subject here. It's a highly reflective subject. What's going to happen if we don't take the time to dust bust? - All the fingerprints are going to show up. - Yeah, we got fingerprints, we've got large spectacles of dust. As we go through here, I want to be careful. This might be an instance to go with actually using some gloves or grabbing the surface that's not going to be shown on the camera. Gentle strokes and just buff that out. I'm using a laptop cleaning cloth here. There's all sorts of different specialty cloths out there for cleaning a subject. What you really want to do is try to get rid of the fingerprints and just make sure your reflective surfaces are clean. Canned air sometimes works. Do you have any other tricks? - Canned air, one of the little blower brushes that you use in your lens kit that cleans off the dust on the lens, that'll work too. Sometimes Windex depending on how sensitive the material you're cleaning is…
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