How Can I Avoid Glare?

[Puccini]

On a short hike today with a friend we stopped at a grotto for a drink and a grasshopper took an interest in my smartphone:

My digital camera is nothing special, a Canon IXUS 75, but just the same I feel that I should be able to avoid the glare on the screen, ie the spots on the front left and right corners of the screen. Would putting a shadow on on the scene being photographed be a solution? The EXIF information can be viewed here: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/gallery/image/13417-grasshopper-inspects-smartphone/#meta

[Tywais]

Normally I try to shade the subject with my body if possible. The better solution is a polarizing filter though for P&S cameras more difficult to find but are available. Magnetic polarizing filter and more here

[canuck1941]

What you might have are reflections of clouds in the sky. The shiny and curved surfaces of modern cameras and mobile devices act like mirrors. Changing the camera angle --higher or lower--might help, but then that changes everything else. Or you might try to incorporate the reflections into image. A good shot, nevertheless.

Edited October 29, 2010 by canuck1941

[Puccini]

Thank you all. I did first take a shot with the sun at my back, throwing my shadow on the phone, but this photo did not show clearly enough the grasshopper licking my phone and therefore I moved to the other side of the table for a second shot.

[cdnvic]

I used to smirk when my wife would occasionally hold her polarized sunglass lens on front of her phone camera until I saw the results. In a pinch it actually does quite well.