jrovner Posted October 10, 2011 Share #1 Â Posted October 10, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) A couple of days ago, my daughter was playing a tennis match. Armed with my M9 and 50mm lens, I looked for a place near her to take some shots. The only option was to shoot through a small opening in an opaque fence. But when I tried to do that, my daughter was consistently out of the photo, because the image of her that I saw through my viewfinder was offset from the image that the lens was pointing to. I could solve this problem by moving back from the fence, but then I couldn't get a decent composition. Â Is this just another way of saying that the M9 isn't meant for close-up situations? Has anyone figured out an effective workaround? Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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charlesphoto99 Posted October 10, 2011 Share #2 Â Posted October 10, 2011 Compensate with the viewfinder - ie look to see that the lens points through the fence and then look and see where the subject is in the vf. She may appear to be behind something but is actually in the frame. Pretty basic geometry and compensation going on. But if you need to shoot a lot of this sort of thing then an slr is best. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrovner Posted October 10, 2011 Author Share #3 Â Posted October 10, 2011 That makes sense. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted October 10, 2011 Share #4  Posted October 10, 2011 It's the way HCB took his famous Gare St Lazare photo... Just aiming, shooting, et voilà ... So you can do it as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
menos I M6 Posted October 11, 2011 Share #5  Posted October 11, 2011 This photograph of the winning Audi @ Le Mans 24h 2011 has been shot through a fence:  Audi Sport Team Joest - Audi R18 TDI - 2011 Le Mans 24h by teknopunk.com, on Flickr M9 | 135 APO-Telyt  I shoot motorsport with Leica M (and Nikon). Most often shooting through fences or other obstacles is the only option.  You can:  Use longer lenses with faster apertures, to make fence artifacts disappear. You will get a lowered contrast and a color cast from the fence's color of course.  The closer you are with your camera to the fence and the more away your actual subject behind the fence, the better. The wider your aperture (the smaller your DOF around your subject distance) the better.  Another wonderful way of dealing with shooting with obstacles with the fully manual Leica RF cameras is, that with these cameras working with very precise prefocussing is very easy.  Use a smaller aperture (which makes it mandatory, to point the lens through a hole in the fence). Prefocus on a target at your actual subject's distance. Shoot your subject, estimating framing either through your partially blocked viewfinder or judge by shooting without the viewfinder.  Another way of dealing with fences and holes is, to switch between horizontal or vertical framing, the way, the fence holes shape dictates and compose by cropping - have a lattice fence? Shoot vertical, frame and crop for horizontal, if you like.  You have to learn at which distances at which apertures, which lenses behave how with fences.  Another tactic is, to do panning shots, blurring the fence in motion, making it disappear (see Le Mans 24h shot above). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrovner Posted October 11, 2011 Author Share #6 Â Posted October 11, 2011 Great ideas! I'm familiar with the idea of using depth of field to blur out a chain link fence, but your ideas for dealing with solid fences are very helpful. I can't believe it didn't occur to me to shoot portrait. Doh! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
menos I M6 Posted October 11, 2011 Share #7 Â Posted October 11, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Great ideas! I'm familiar with the idea of using depth of field to blur out a chain link fence, but your ideas for dealing with solid fences are very helpful. I can't believe it didn't occur to me to shoot portrait. Doh! Â Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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