Have any of you ever taken a photograph through a window screen and if so, would you share some of those pictures with me?
My reason for asking is due to the fact I have seen some very beautiful night-time skies out of my bedroom window. I see the grays shining in (due to the streetlights) and can see the Winter trees with leaves gone on the west side of our house as the sky slowly becomes lighter and lighter.
Yeah. I don’t get much sleep. Gotta take care of “Priority One” (she doesn’t like that nick very much).
Is the word “surreal” or “eerie”?
“So why don’t you go outside your house to take those photos?”, I hear you asking.
Because our front yard has gophers and the ground is very soft. At 67, I cannot afford any broken bones.
As for my camera, it’s just a cheap Fuji Film 5x zoom. I think I paid about $60.00 for it.
Thanks, and I look forward to seeing your photos if you have any taken under those circumstances.
Quasi
The camera is digital, yes? Just try taking the pictures and see how they turn out! That’s the beauty of digital camera, it costs literally nothing to take pictures. Take a thousand pictures, if they don’t turn out well, delete them.
Well, you could remove the screen for a few minutes… But anyway, I have had good results setting my camera to “landscape”. That sets the focus to long range. If you don’t the self focus can settle on the screen and that’s all you get.
Dennis
A screen will soften the pictures. If you want sharp images, don’t shoot through a screen.
If you can go as telephoto as possible and get as close to the screen as possible you can get by with some loss of contrast.
I haven’t tried it with a point and shoot but if the screen material is black it may work.
The biggest problem is that the longer and faster a lens is the better it is to shoot through fencing and mesh. I don’t have a point and shoot camera but it is worth trying. While you will lose contrast most of the baseball and basketball photographers have to do this often.
This really only works if the mesh is closer than the minimum focus distance. And because smaller sensors have a larger depth of field this probably wouldn’t work with a phone camera but give it a go…