City Views

I have wonderful views of the City from my office window, examples can be seen at www.champnet.co.uk/sth
These shots were taken with my Canon A10. I've yet to take in my new G6.
Can anyone offer any practical advice for taking pictures like these through glass as the windows are sealed and the roof is inaccessible.
Many thanks - David

David,
Welcome to the forum!

I'm unable to view the sample image (getting a timeout), so I'm not sure what you're running into, but one common problem is reflections from the room behind the camera superimposing over the landscape. If you can make the room darker than the outside, that will help (less reflected light to 'overwrite' the desired image). Getting the lens as close to the glass as possible, and keeping it close to perpendicular both reduce the area of reflection. I'd suggest making a mask out of black construction paper with a hole the size of your lens. Tape the mask to the window.
Another option is to use a polarizing filter on you G6--this may take some experimentation.

Thanks for advise, you've given me options to try.

Can you try the link again, I'm running through so many proxy servers, thanks again.

No problem!
I just tried again--even just the root of the site--and I still get a timeout. Odd. I don't know if you're an admin on that site or not, but if you are, it looks like the peering relationship between verio.net and colt.net is introducing latency--possibly an overloaded router? I just ran a tracert, and the response time jumps over 100ms at that hop.

Can anyone in the UK see it ??
dbump can we take conversation re: web server off the forum, email address : dmulligan@ "domain in url"
thanks

Good plan! Will do.

Look fine to me in West Yorkshire. Cannot add anything to advice given about pictures through glass.

I am in Russia, cannot see it

DavidM wrote:
I have wonderful views of the City from my office window, examples can be seen at www.champnet.co.uk/sth
These shots were taken with my Canon A10. I've yet to take in my new G6.
Can anyone offer any practical advice for taking pictures like these through glass as the windows are sealed and the roof is inaccessible.
Many thanks - David

David,
Now the link is accessible. The reflections from the window are visible though.
Greetings,
Roumen

Now I can see also. but interesting, if that reflections could be removed with Photoshop?

Wonderful views!
You are lucky one, I have in my office only widnow like this:

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The smoke detector spoils the view...
I'd swop if it was 90 mins nearer to home !!
Hopefully the G6 with a to-be-bought polarizing filter will produce some stunning shots, will let you know.
Thanks to all for advice, apologies about the web site I've moved it to another server.
Rgds - David

You're not kidding about the view--wow!
In some of those, it looks like sunlight is illuminating the office, and adding to the reflection. I've had that problem, and my only solution was waiting for a different sun angle for the shot.

a trick i have used for taking pictures through glass, mostly at aquariums, is to use one of the cheap rubber lens hoods attached to the lens adapter pressed up against the window. this get rid of any reflective glare. http://www.ritzcamera.​com …gId=-1&productId=13234064

Great tip! Most hoods should be flexible enough to allow a bit of angling also. Now I need to hit an aquarium...