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Taking Pictures Through Windows


Exactly, this is what I did in college for a class, it's fun to go on a Sunday morning when it's relatively quiet, and it's the unexpected that makes them special.
 

While I pesonally am respectful of people not wanting the privacy invaded by photography, this is one instance that I am can state that I would take the photograph anyway.

Why?

Because you legally have the right to take the photograph and she is legally wrong to harrass you. You could have called the police if she had continued and had her cited. And in this case, I would do both!

Steve
 
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Just tell her you are only photographing the glass, not the display. Then if she continues, ignore her like your deaf, and if she still continues, take her picture and tell her you freelance for the local papers and will make a report of her silly claims in an article, since its "news".
 
Most of this thread seems to be about reflections on the glass. But suppose you are meterless and inside. It's a sunny day outside and your subject is in the sun. Sunny 16 would work considering your subject is in the sun, but there is a pane of glass between you. How much light does window glass block?

I think that it is not very much and probably insignificant, but it has caused me to wonder before. Especially when in a car and shooting at something outside the car, because care glass seems to be green-tinted. How many stops ND are cosmetically tinted windows like limo windows?
 
When I take photographs of a window, I usually take two photographs, one with a polarizer and one without a polarizer. Later, I decide which one I like the best.

Steve
 
Depends if the glass is tinted, for one. Since this thought experiment assumes you're meterless, and I'm assuming you have some experience in judging exposures, then I'd recommend viewing the scene outside directly, then coming inside and viewing it through the window, and judging your exposure accordingly. Since there are no standards for window transparency, especially with the possibility of some special coating or treatment on the glass, what else could you do?

Oh, and bracket your exposures.

~Joe
 
After trying to remember where i put the thing, some rummaging, trying to think again, some more opening of bags, cabinets, and boxes, and finally finding my spot meter, i just gave it a try.

I can report that, pointing the thing at the same something, both direct and through a regular window pane, it makes no difference at all as long as there is no battery in the meter.
Must go shop for some...
 

That's why I love my L-508. Incident and spot, and it uses a single AA battery.
 
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