shooting through glass..

Slipperman

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maybe from in a hotel room or from a tower overlook (Willis, etc)?
is there a trick to preventing reflections of you and your camera or other ambient light from appearing in the image?
 

Osantacruz

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Circular polarized lens filter is supposed to help with the reflections but I haven't tried it in this exact scenario

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Bikerbrent

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If you can hold your lens right up against the glass, or as close to it as you can get, has worked well for me. this picture was shot this way through my hotel room glass.

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Michael J.

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I put my lens to the window. Th class is like a CP filter as well. It was on the 2nd,5th, and 8th floor at a shopping mall. The windows were not that clean at all


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hark

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get a rubber lens hood, press the lip to the glass and take your shot.

This is what I have heard, too, or using a CP filter as was also mentioned. If there are any lights on in the room, take notice if they are adversely affecting the image especially if you don't have the lens hood against the glass. Good luck! Hope you'll show us what you take. ;)
 

Slipperman

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This is what I have heard, too, or using a CP filter as was also mentioned. If there are any lights on in the room, take notice if they are adversely affecting the image especially if you don't have the lens hood against the glass. Good luck! Hope you'll show us what you take. ;)
i'll be in Cambridge MA so hopefully i'll get some good shots of Cambridge and the Charles River.
 

RocketCowboy

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Even better, travel with a black scarf. You can wrap that around the end of the lens and against the glass to cut down on light reflecting off the glass in front of the camera.


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BackdoorArts

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I picked up one of these (a Lenskirt) when I was traveling a lot.

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Sits flat in a suitcase and works equally well in any light and gives you a some amount of left/right/up/down motion without introducing reflections. Works well when the glass, in and of itself, doesn't have noise and reflection inducing properties (i.e. multiple panes, reflective coatings).
 

darksideno1

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So if I get CPL filter this will help me with better pictures like this?
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But which one is better to get? Hoya or Marumi? But there is also more models under every brand. I am newbie but I am lost with all this.

And for rubber lens hood I select same size as filter? My lenses are 77mm or I need to check anything else? Is good enough if I get one from china or is better from specialized manufacturer?
 
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Browncoat

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So if I get CPL filter this will help me with better pictures like this?

A CPL filter will reduce incoming light by about 1-2 stops. For photos in a dimly lit place like a museum, you're probably not going to like the results, especially when using a lens that doesn't open very wide. These filters are typically used for landscapes to reduce reflections from water, darkening the sky or long exposures.

Should also note that a CPL reduces reflections, it typically doesn't eliminate them. The reduction on a linear glass surface is going to be minimal.
 

hark

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So if I get CPL filter this will help me with better pictures like this?
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But which one is better to get? Hoya or Marumi? But there is also more models under every brand. I am newbie but I am lost with all this.

And for rubber lens hood I select same size as filter? My lenses are 77mm or I need to check anything else? Is good enough if I get one from china or is better from specialized manufacturer?

I used to be a Hoya fan until 2 of their CP Filters had issues - one of them broke apart where the frame rotates, and the other most likely will do so if I continue to use it. I switched to B+W as well as Formatt Hitech. BUT the ones I linked are slim filters (meaning the depth from the front to the back of the filters is thin). Thicker depth filters can cause vignetting especially when shooting wider. Marumi is a decent brand from what I've read although I've never used one. If you are going to screw on a rubber lens hood to the front of a CP filter, I'm not sure if a slim filter would allow you much room to screw on a hood. The hood might fall off easily since it wouldn't be able to screw on as much as on a regular filter.

For something like your example, a rubber lens hood won't work any better than a regular lens hood. A rubber lens hood is useful if you are going to place the front of your lens against the glass (aquariums are a good example of that use). But if you want to shoot an entire display, putting a lens against the glass won't allow you to capture the entire display. That's when a regular lens hood would work just as well as a rubber one.

If you are standing back to shoot through glass and cut reflections, sometimes a CP filter helps. It depends on the source of the reflections. My church has beautiful etched glass between the Narthex and Sanctuary. But the problem is behind where I stand to photograph it are glass doors to the parking lot. No matter what brand of CP filter I use, I cannot get rid of the car reflections. Most likely I will have to cover the doors with something to eliminate that type of reflection.

Some CP filters make you lose light stops more than others (meaning the glass is darker).
 
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darksideno1

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Thank you. What about taking pictures with rubber hood? Is it only for straigh out the window or I can take it under a little angle? For bigger angles maybe will be better skirt on previous page.
 
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