Photography through darkened glass

[arclight]

This is purely out of curiousity.

Everyone has probably seen video clips on the news where press photographers try capture pics of a prisoner being driven to/from a court etc in a police van with windows so dark that those inside cannot be seen.

Some photographers put their cameras against the glass and take a pic using flash.

Can that actually work?

 

[ChrisMClark]

I presume so, if there's pictures in the papers then they're getting them somehow. Presumably if you hit it with a powerful enough flash it'll light the subject up sufficiently to capture their image, even through dark glass.

 

[Syx]

I always wondered about this also, because I've never seen a published photo taken in that manner - is it just the newbies that try while all the experiences toggers stand back and chuckle?

 

[Marc]

Must say that I've seen them on tv, desperately trying to get a picture of someone in those vans bu I've never seen the end results. :shrug:

 

[edz]

go down the local boyracers hangout and look for someone with blacked out windows and try it hehe

 

[neil_g]

it works sometimes, ive seen pics before. they just look like underexposed shots.

 

[arclight]

I always wondered about this also, because I've never seen a published photo taken in that manner - is it just the newbies that try while all the experiences toggers stand back and chuckle?

Same here - never seen any results.

 

[OutLore]

Same here - never seen any results.

How would you know? If the shots come out ok, you'd just think they were shots of someone in a car.

 

[foodpoison]

Just use a CPL! Removes reflections, BAM, clear as day