shooting threw a fence

[coward]

Hi all
I hope you can help me I was trying to take pictures threw a fence as you can see from my results I wasn’t very successful

Could you guys/girls please help me and let me know where I was going wrong and what setting I should have been using thanks.
Also please feel free to give critic on the pictures as I’m very much a beginner and would love some ideas on how the shots should have been taken for when I go back there this summer

heres some exaples of what i managed to get

thankyou everyone

Karl

 

[stupar]

Hi Karl,

How close were you to the fence?
When I take shots through a fence a put the lens right up against it, that usually cancels out the fence showing in the shot (assuming the gaps are not to small)

 

[coward]

i was about one and a half meters away couldnt get any closer they had a railing up
they seem to love making it hard to get pics

 

[Nawty]

Sometimes you just can't make solid objects disappear...

The best you can do is get close and use as low an f number as possible - preferably lower than a kit lens will allow you.

 

[RobertP]

Have a look in here -

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=248758

for a discussion on the subject

 

[tirc83]

If I may be allowed a pimp in this thread - this was taken through small mesh chicken wire. Long focal length and close to the wire.

 

[HoppyUK]

Get as close as you can, even touching the fence, use lowest f/number.

The fence will disappear, but the pattern of the wire will reappear as a faint pattern in the out of focus background.

 

[coward]

ok thanks everyone for the replys
when i next get into that situation ill try leaning over the barier and use live view trying hard not to get any camera shake hopefully that will work

 

[AJQS]

If you can't get up to the fence, stick it on a tripod or monopod, live view and remote release - use the tripod as a boom, press it hard against the fence and it should be stable enoug has long as you can trust the AF and metering to manage the shot.