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Shooting through glass – results

Here are the results from my experimentation with shooting through glass. Basically I went to a glass store and asked to buy scrap pieces of broken glass. I was especially looking for glass that had a bit of texture in it. I looked through the glass with my eye and chose pieces that had just a bit of pattern and/or texture. I bought about 6 pieces of scrap glass for around 5 dollars. The pieces of glass that I bought were a bit too small in retrospect. I’d recommend the minimum size to be 6 x 8 inches (15.2 X 20.4 cm)

To shoot I put the camera on a tripod and placed different pieces of glass between the lens and the fake flowers. Seems to me that the best shots were those where I placed the glass closer to the flowers than closer to the lens. I manually held the glass during the exposure, and I did this without using a cable release (which would have been handy). On some shots I focused on the flowers through the glass, and on other shots I just focused on the glass. The effects are quite painterly and I encourage experimentation. Here are the results.

Normal shot

Through textured glass

 

Through textured glass

 

Through textured glass

 

Shot through amber glass with texture

 

Pieces of the actual glass that were used

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