Shooting through glass is usually not recommended when you have a choice, since the glass can reduce the sharpness of the final photograph. There is also the tendency to get unwanted reflections. That said, rules are meant to be broken especially when there is a goal in mind. For this shot the goal was to show what’s on the glass and what is beyond the glass in a vain‚effort to vent my frustration over‚our relentless punishing winter. You can click the image to make it tastier on the eyes, even though all this snow leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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
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