Shooting through Glass

[alpine62uk]

I currently at a hotel and have a wonderful view from my room but the windows do not open are there any tips when taking photos through glass.

The windows are not tinted but are double galzed.

Thanks Antony

[aam1234]

I shot a lot through glass w/o any problem.

[Belmondo]

I currently at a hotel and have a wonderful view from my room but the windows do not open are there any tips when taking photos through glass.

The windows are not tinted but are double galzed.

Thanks Antony

Two things I always do when shooting out a window:
1. Focus manually. Reflections in the window could 'distract' your autofocus. Also, keep the room as dark as possible to avoid reflected light on the inside of the window.
2. Shoot RAW and correct white balance in Photoshop. Many hotel windows are heavily tinted.

[Ikinaa]

No light in your hotel room, so as to have a minimum reflection from the light in the interior.
Put the lens as near to the glass as possible.
Put a dark cloth over the lens-body where it touches the window.
All that to minimize reflections...

or

break the window (manager won't be happy)

or

sometimes you have the possibility in hotels to go to the roof (last level, then take some service-stairs...) so no probs with the window... but don't be caught... normally it's not allowed :twisted:

[aznkid.com]

circular polarizer!

[Doom1701e]

DONT USE A FLASH! :wink:

[drisley]

I shot this picture (http://www.fotop.net/sharpnsmart/zoo/CRW_2508)thru glass. I just made sure the lens hood was pressed up against the glass so the lens glass was parallel to the glass on the cage.

[samdring]

Use a rubber hood and exclude reflections

[Persian-Rice]

A couple things

-Hotels usually have thick and really opaque curtains, pull the curtains and stand between the curtains and the window.

-Make sure all the room light are off.

My next two are just guesses, but use a polarizer and try to shoot at a wider aparture................. that makes some sence to me, but a lot of weird things make sence to me.

[alpine62uk]

Thanks for all the advice, closing the curtains behind me with the lens on the glass gave me some good results

Thanks again

[Seamless]

The question brought to mind how difficult it can be shooting objects in museums display cases (not to mention protected brush artwork). Not only is there a focus challenge at wide open stops, but very little control over spotlighting (particularly when flash is not permitted, and typically tripods are not allowed without permit).

Tough: well-lit gold objects, sparkly stones (e.g. crowns, scepters, necklaces).

And don't get me started on holograms. :)

Any good tips from experience?

Jay Giusti

[DaveG]

I currently at a hotel and have a wonderful view from my room but the windows do not open are there any tips when taking photos through glass.

The windows are not tinted but are double galzed.

Thanks Antony

Although this is a bit off point this is my favorite shooting-through-glass story:

A few years ago I was working for a newspaper and had to shoot a junior hockey game. This may sound small time but it's very big around here and there were about 10,000 people in the building. I arrived before the game but not as early as usual. Because of that I found that the photographer from the other newspaper had already gotten into the visitor's penalty box. There was no glass barrier in the penalty boxes and that was the prime location to shoot from. Well there was still the home penalty box but that was occupied by the "team's" in house photographer.

I knew this guy so I asked if I could use that location for the first period. "Nope, not a chance." Now this guy knew that I was on deadline and that I could only stay for the first period, while he could stay for the entire game. Basically this guy lived to give people a hard time and this was yet another opportunity to be a jerk.

I moved to an area at one end of the ice surface. I don't like to shoot through the glass but that was they way it was going to be. I'm standing there angry as all get out with this moron when I get a tap on my shoulder. "Do you do free-lance work besides this stuff?" asked this man. "Well yes I do." "One of the visiting players just signed a big pro contract with an NHL team. He bought a truck from our car dealership and we'd like to get a shot of him getting the keys tomorrow."

In any case that was the first assignment in a business relationship that survives to this day! I figure that the jerk has put about $10,000 into my pockets which could have been his, had he been nice. So, will I shoot through glass? You bet!

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[Jon, The Elder]

Dave G-

Once again proving "What goes around, comes around "