Comments on: Shooting through glass is bad unless… https://www.photography.ca/blog/2008/03/11/shooting-through-glass-is-bad-unless/ Photography podcast blog and forum Tue, 03 Jan 2017 21:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: admin https://www.photography.ca/blog/2008/03/11/shooting-through-glass-is-bad-unless/comment-page-1/#comment-60180 admin Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:38:36 +0000 http://www.photography.ca/blog/?p=84#comment-60180 Thanks for the comment Yves! That cardboard trick seems like a lot more work than just manually focusing though. It would probably take 3–5 minutes to put up the cardboard and 5–10 seconds to manually focus. Do people hate manual focus that much?

I’ve been lucky enough to be in the Netherlands twice and I love your country.
I’d LOVE to spend winters in Europe…ESPECIALLY southern Europe :)

]]> By: Yves https://www.photography.ca/blog/2008/03/11/shooting-through-glass-is-bad-unless/comment-page-1/#comment-60105 Yves Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:28:10 +0000 http://www.photography.ca/blog/?p=84#comment-60105 Hey Marko, I always have trouble autofocussing when I try to shoot waterdrops on glass, so I have to switch to manual focus often. One thing I found that works also is putting a black sheet of paper or cardboard on the other side of the glass to let the autofocus find the drops, then take the sheet away and release the shutter.

ps. nothing but sun here in The Netherlands: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yjanse/2319326092/
Maybe you need to spend the winters in Europe in the future :)

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