 Tom W. Winn |
Photographing Through a Window Screen What are the camera settings for shooting thru a window screen?
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Justin G. |
hmmm? what's a window screen? the screen that keeps bugs out?
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Brendan Knell |
If you've got a manual focus, try playing with that.
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Mark Feldstein |
Greetings, Tom. There are no specific settings per se, but there are mainly two ways to shoot through a screen, which, by the way, acts somewhat like a light diffuser. One technique - to eliminate the screen in the photo entirely - is to get your lens up as close as you can to the screen and focus on whatever you want in the outside world. Then set your camera according to your built-in meter. If you're using a handheld light meter, just point that through the screen and take a reading. The other way is to use the screen as a diffuser for whatever is in the background. In that situation, you've basically got a depth of field choice to make. To get the screen in focus along with the outside world, set your camera 1/3 of the distance from the screen to whatever you want in focus outdoors and check your depth of field by stopping down the lens to the f-stop you want to work at in order to maintain sharpness. Or, just focus on the subject at the window, if any, take a reading, set your camera and blast away. Oh, and if you're shooting through some kind of chain-link fence, to eliminate the fence just get up close and personal to it and focus on the subject on the other side of the fence. That'll eliminate the fence in the scene. Take it light.
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