Hood

Lens hood
Rubber or metal hood that fits on the front of a lens to shield light from hitting the edges of the lens and causing flare.
Search SWPP and BPPA
Information provided by: SWPP BPPA
More Photographic Terms ...

Lens Hood/Shade
From Nikonians Wiki - FAQs, Photo Glossary, Good Photo Locations, Help
Jump to: navigation, search ...

Lens hood
Techniques Glossary Lens hood
Rubber or metal hood that fits on the front of a lens to shield light from hitting the edges of the lens and causing flare.

Lens hood
Edit Read more: Glossary, Lens accessories
Edited by Awcam
View full history ...

Hood top
The bayonet, reversible plastic hood is included.
Rokinon 35/1.4 and included hood. ...

Hood
A tube, usually made of metal or rubber, that prevents unwanted light from falling on the lens surface.
(see Flare) ...

Lens Hood
Lens Hood is a camera accessory that fits on to the end of the lens that can shield the lens from direct light rays that will cause lens flare or other aberrations in a photograph.
Lens Speed ...

Lens Hood A conical device placed at the end of a lens to block rays of light (most often from the sun) from entering the lens and causing glare or lens flare. Lens Shift VR See VR ...

LENS HOOD or "Lens shade" - An accessory that attaches as a collar to the front of a lens to prevent stray light from striking the surface of the lens, and thereby causing flare.

Lens hood - shade to keep stray light from the lens surface [These are sometimes built into the lens, or they are removable. Lens hoods do more then protect the lens from light...

Lens Hood: A short conical shaped tube that attaches to the front of a lens to shield it from extraneous light. Helps prevent lens flare, ghost images and loss of contrast. An inexpensive must have accessory for your camera system.

Lens hood. A device that shades the lens, protecting it from extraneous light outside the actual picture area that can reduce the contrast of the image or allow lens flare.

Lens hood
Made from metal or plastic, the hood fits on the end of the lens to shade the front lens element from incidental light, which could otherwise cause reflections, glare and ghosting.

sonny hood
09-03-2011
I found this article to be very helpful and motivating - made me want to go out and give it a shot!
Fred Harvey ...

-Lens hood - opaque tube, either cylindrical, square of funnel shaped, use to shield a lens from stray light outside the field of view.
-Lens shade - see Lens hood.
-Lens shutter camera - camera with the shutter built into the lens.

A good lens hood can nearly eliminate flare caused by stray light from outside the angle of view. Ensure that this hood has a completely non-reflective inner surface, such as felt, and that there are no regions which have rubbed off.

2. Use a lens hood whenphotographing near or facing a powerful light source. Also use a lens hood as an extra means of protection for the lens against any direct impact or fingerprints. These can decrease image quality.

Hood does more than just block light source. It also partially protects the front part of the lens, but I has to be at least bit narrow/long of course I use lens hood everytime I use my 70-200 or 100 macro, even if it's overcast.
Reply
CDA says: ...

Mt. Hood in Oregon. The image is a bit underexposed.
Adding a Screen blended copy on top of the original makes things much brighter.
Toning down the opacity and adding a layer mask over the sky completes the fix.

Lens Hood
This is an optional piece of equipment that can be plastic or metal. It is attached to the end of a lens to reduce or eliminate lens flare or other unwanted intrusion of light that may appear on your pictures.
Overexposure ...

Fort Hood Tribute
Debbi K. Swanson Patrick
This photo was taken by Martin Howard, a retired Lt. Col. and pathologist from the US Army in Mississippi.

Lens Hood
A collar or hood at the front of a lens that keeps unwanted light from striking the lens and causing image flare. May be attached or detachable, and should be sized to the particular lens to avoid vignetting.

Loyce Hood says:
Don't forget about the Lunar 11 rule. In Manual Mode, set your camera to F11, the ISO and Shutter speed should be the same. This will give you the approximate proper ecposure ...

Robin Hood
I don't understand. Those suposse to be free fonts "New High Quality Free Fonts" header says, and most of them are NOT free...
Reply ...

If the hood had a small opening at the rear, just enough for the photographer to adjust the filter with one finger, the process would be much easier. Since most lens hoods today are plastic, adding such an opening is an easy procedure.

A lens hood lets you block light from the lens. Stray light can cause lens flare and lower image contrast.
Lens converters are available for many cameras that increase or decrease the focal length of the built-in zoom lens.

Q: Lens hood.
A: I use a lens hood when practical or needed. If I decide it's not necessary, I don't need the bulk and weight in the bag. Many times I am in mountainous terrain and need to travel light.

e-clipse hood on a Sony Vaio Z505
Conclusion
Ok, so it may look a little wacky but I really like the e-clipse, it makes using a notebook / laptop outdoors easy, it packs down into a fairly small pouch. At $39.

by Charles Hood
How many times have you arrived home after a great diving trip, had your films processed and had that horrible sinking feeling when you discover all of your images are incorrectly exposed?

Ricoh HA-2 Hood with Adapter for Wide & Tele Conversion Lenses, for the GX100 & GX200 Digital Cameras
$49.95 ...

A camera lens hood is used in order to prevent a reflection from the sun from going into the camera lens.

Use a lens hood on every lens, and consider an eyecup for your camera's viewfinder. These accessories help protect the glass from fingers, dust, facial oils, air pollution, impact, etc.

This gigantic hood fits the 600mm 4L USM IS.
Knowing this system you can figure a few things out. For example, the EW-65, ES-65 and ET-65 can all clip onto the same lenses - the only difference is the length.

- Attach a lens hood (or shade) to each of your lenses ... besides preventing sun flare, the lens hood also helps ward off snow and mist. Note: The hood must be designed specifically for your lens.

Lens Hood or Shade: An attachment located at the front of a lens to keep unwanted light from striking the lens and causing image flare.

Material for bokeh hood or filter
Thin cardboard or Poster board
Medium thickness plastic
Stencil material ...

The Seabee would be better framed by the arch of a new building being constructed, or the hood and engine of a dump truck. The frame should add emphasis and lead the viewer to the subject. Do not make the frame the subject.

Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art
Hartford, Connecticut: Wadsworth Atheneum
Houston, Texas: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Menil Collection
Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts
Indianapolis, Indiana: Indianapolis Museum of Art ...

Focussing hood. usable only with lenses up to 210mm which are not too big ($3000). Horseman HB: a newer camera (review in View Camera, May/June 95) same size and weight as the previous.

Two more things that can really help, but are not needed, are a remote shutter release, and also a lens hood, which can help block surrounding ambient light (such as if you're around a surrounding city, or with street lights).

Filter, step-up rings, lens hood.
Before we begin, you will need to check to see if your camera has an infrared blocking filter (also called a "hot mirror" filter) installed.

With the lens hood a mere few inches from the object to be photographed it may be difficult to get sufficient light onto the frontal areas, and just not enough room to place a reflector or diffuser panel where you want it.

Fins, mask, snorkel and wet suit (with hood, see below) are all you need pack. Underwater, you will only be shooting wide-angle, and the wider the better. Do not take strobes, arms, spotting lights etc, as you can’t use them.

The "L" lens is also nicer to use, has smoother focus, a tripod ring, a built in lens hood, doesn't rotate or extend during focus and is a stop faster.

It also refers to a fall off in illumination at the edges of an image, such as may be caused by a lens hood or similar attachment partially blocking the field of view of the lens.

Good reasons why photographers should use a lens hood
Apart from making your equipment seem larger and getting you more attention from non SLR photographers, lens hoods do have a real purpose.

I used my 500mm telephoto here, and the large lens hood protected the front glass element from the rain in this particular situation.

Use a lens hood at all times to reduce flare and also protect the front element of your lens. Whenever possible, close the lens down two or three stops. All lenses are at their sharpest when closed a couple of stops.

For a while, I was using one of those sleeves you get on a Starbucks coffee as a lens hood. It was wrapped in black tape and it wasn't pretty, but it got the job done and it was free, which was really important at the time. Had Lenshoods.

A ball cap replaced my hood, a T-shirt took the place of my parka, shorts substituted for down outerwear, and the only wind I was worrying about was tropical in nature and most often considered a breeze.

A friend had told him about a casting for Robin Hood and he secured three days’ filming work, dressed up as a peasant and doing a few fight scenes.

Some experts recommend using a lens hood when trying to enhance the effects of backlighting in photographs. Such a hood can significantly reduce the glare involved when pointing a camera directly into light.

My camera had no way of attaching a hood to shade the screen, but I was able to get around the problem by calling on the photographer's (and the camper's) best friend: duct tape.

The supplied lens hood is long enough that lens flare isn't a problem but the hood is not very sturdy (especially considering the cost of the lens). Controls on the lens are recessed so as to not be accidentally bumped and the tripod mount is sturdy.

The AII has a metal 'flip up' focusing hood with leather baffles. The focusing hood assembly is hinged and can be flipped out of the way or easily removed if you want to use a regular dark cloth for focusing.

Removing the cap like you would on any other lens, still leaves the lens hood type of attachment on the lens. Leaving the cap on the attachment and pulling on the entire assembly removes the hood. Here is the product shot again: ...

For this reason, it makes sense to use a lens hood or lens shade to prevent unwanted flare in your photograph. That doesn't mean you should avoid flare at all costs.

Select the entire wall area with the tool. To do that, click on the edge of the hood, move the cursor a short distance, then click again. Follow this process until it's completely selected, then double-click to close the loop.
Step 2: Add the Texture ...

WordPress Naked is a simple two column WordPress theme developed to assist other developers that need to quickly implement a blog using WordPress but don't really have the time to spend looking under the hood in any detail or reading documentation ...

Photo: Courtesy Robin Hood/Alaska Travel Industry Association
Encounter a Grizzly Bear
3 of 10 ...

See also: Light, Camera, Lens, Photograph, Image