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Re: Photos taken through glass

Postby Rosemary » Sun Jan 04, 2009 3:34 pm

Hi all,
Some of your suggestions are hilarious!! Can you imagine how I would explain carrying a sledgehammer through security " I only need it to break bus windows so as I can get decent pictures, Sir" The mental picture of me sitting - hopefully tied to the bus roof rack, snapping away boggles the mind. I think I would be admitted to a mental institution pronto.
Seariously though, I will try the manual focus suggestion and put husband in charge of reminding me to put it back to auto.
Thanks again everyone,

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Re: Photos taken through glass

Postby Tarafrost » Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:02 pm

Rosemary wrote:Some of your suggestions are hilarious!!


We aim to please! ;-)

Rosemary wrote:Seariously though, I will try the manual focus suggestion and put husband in charge of reminding me to put it back to auto.


Good move, that way if you forget to reset it to auto, it'll be his fault! In which case his ass will be "seariously seared"! :lol:
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Re: Photos taken through glass

Postby gpsmikey » Sun Jan 04, 2009 6:17 pm

Hey, I like the idea of riding on top of the bus -- nothing in my way and no glass. Both Andrzej and I ride motorcycles, so to us, it is no different than cruisin' down the highway on our scooters (you can always tell the happy motorcycle rider by the bugs on their teeth :lol: ) Haven't been riding it in the snow though :shock:

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Re: Photos taken through glass

Postby Tarafrost » Sun Jan 04, 2009 6:54 pm

gpsmikey wrote: Haven't been riding it in the snow though :shock:


Wimp! :shock:
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Re: Photos taken through glass

Postby Rosemary » Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:45 pm

Mikey and Andrzej
I have been out shovelling snow daily since Christmas Eve. It was supposed to rain today but the snow keeps coming! So much for "not much snow in Vancouver" I do not notice too many Harleys out and around either. Would make for some good photography snapping someone digging his/her bike out of the snow. Andrzej our excuse on the west coast is that we have wet, sloppy snow whereas you have dry powdery stuff. We just slip and slide around with our all season or summer tires and generally everything grinds to a halt.

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Re: Photos taken through glass

Postby gpsmikey » Sun Jan 04, 2009 8:02 pm

Hmmm - that's not a good sign -- I am south of you near Seattle - it was supposed to snow a bit then turn to rain later this afternoon -- we now have several inches and it is snowing quite hard. If Vancouver is getting it, it sounds like we are in line for it too :(

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Re: Photos taken through glass

Postby Tarafrost » Sun Jan 04, 2009 8:15 pm

Rosemary wrote:I have been out shovelling snow daily since Christmas Eve.


Got you beat....I've been shovelling this stuff since late October. It's been white since then without a break. We had bigger snow piles by late November than we had at the end of last winter. Crazy!

I'm just pulling Mikey's leg.....my bikes (all 7 of them) are in the garage and likely to stay there till at least late March!

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Re: Photos taken through glass

Postby gpsmikey » Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:38 am

I couldn't find anybody that carried chains for my scooter so it had to stay home :twisted:

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Re: Photos taken through glass

Postby JARHTMD » Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:23 pm

To get back to the original post's topic.

I've done a lot of traveling to "once in a lifetime places"; usually with professional &/or very serious amateurs & get a lot of "static" from them when I shoot from a moving bus. My philosophy is that you definitely will NOT get the pic if you don't shoot, but you MIGHT get it if you DO shoot. So, by all means shoot!

Sunny days seem to give more problems; overcast is better. Of course, there's nothing you can do to control the weather. If the sun is in front of you, your own reflection is your main problem. It's close to the window, & forces you to get the lens very close to the window. Wearing darker clothing will help reduce your reflection. Suggest that your husband not wear light clothes (or you'll have something else to blame him for). If the sun is behind you on the other side of the bus, the other passengers are problems. You can't control what they wear either.

I recommend manual focus (on infinity), faster (higher) ISO (to help eliminate motion blur), and a wide angle lens if possible. You'll probably have to crop some of the pics, but framing & zooming in close can be an impossible task on a moving bus.

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Re: Photos taken through glass

Postby Rosemary » Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:27 pm

Thanks, Jim.

We have just returned from South America and have 2000 photos. Some were taken through a bus window and were successful whilst others only qualify for the delete button! I agree that one has to seize the opportunity and hope for the best.

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Re: Photos taken through glass

Postby Rosemary » Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:59 pm

Hi,
I found this link to an article from a newsletter from Tripso.com and it has some interesting suggestions re shooting through glass and further links to other travel photography articles at the end. Perhaps they will be of interest to the "point and Shooters" like me as well as the more expert.

http://www.tripso.com/columns/a-travel- ... plexiglas/

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Re: Photos taken through glass

Postby Aida » Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:49 am

Rosemary wrote:Hi,
I found this link to an article from a newsletter from Tripso.com and it has some interesting suggestions re shooting through glass and further links to other travel photography articles at the end. Perhaps they will be of interest to the "point and Shooters" like me as well as the more expert.

http://www.tripso.com/columns/a-travel- ... plexiglas/

Rosemary


I, too, am interested in photographing through glass - but not just through the window of a bus or airplane. My attempts have included aquariums, department store windows, objects/pictures/posters displayed behind glass, etc. etc.
Below are some links to websites that you & others interested in this subject might wish to visit:

Photos through glass:

http://www.digicamhelp.com/how-to/speci ... cts/glass/
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m ... i_17380608
http://www.brighthub.com/multimedia/pho ... /8121.aspx
http://photography.about.com/od/photogr ... mphoto.htm
http://markhemmings.blogspot.com/2007/0 ... glare.html

And if you google photographing through glass, you'll find tons of other sites.

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Re: Photos taken through glass

Postby Rosemary » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:16 pm

Aida, thank you for the URLs. I am going to have a fun afternoon reading them. Why didn't I think of Google! I am much obliged.

Rosemary

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