Interesting effects - light through glass block window, and definitely not something I normally photograph.
Shutter priority, 1/250 sec, f/6.30, ISO 800, focal length 42.00 mm
That's a fun subject choice, Ken! There is so much potential in photographing window and/or glass images, and so many challenges! There needs to be enough light coming through from behind to show the brilliance of the glass and the colors, and then you have to be really careful about reflections on the camera side of the glass. Here you can tell that there is a wall of green behind these glass blocks, even though the glass is so thick. At our church we have these metal shapes in the windows. They look like the frames of stained glass windows where nobody has gotten around to filling in the shapes with colored glass. I have never been successful in getting a truly great picture of any of them. I'm sure that it is a matter of finding the right time of day with the sun coming in at the right angle. Sometimes they glow with golden-ness, and sometimes they're just gray shapes against gray sky--which is still okay, but they won't cause spontaneous religious conversion through beauty, you know?
That's a fun subject choice, Ken! There is so much potential in photographing window and/or glass images, and so many challenges! There needs to be enough light coming through from behind to show the brilliance of the glass and the colors, and then you have to be really careful about reflections on the camera side of the glass. Here you can tell that there is a wall of green behind these glass blocks, even though the glass is so thick. At our church we have these metal shapes in the windows. They look like the frames of stained glass windows where nobody has gotten around to filling in the shapes with colored glass. I have never been successful in getting a truly great picture of any of them. I'm sure that it is a matter of finding the right time of day with the sun coming in at the right angle. Sometimes they glow with golden-ness, and sometimes they're just gray shapes against gray sky--which is still okay, but they won't cause spontaneous religious conversion through beauty, you know?
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