Instead, take advantage of your lens hood and put your lens right up against the fence. The lens hood will prevent the glass element from getting scratched, and your lens will be close enough to the fence that it will focus right through it. Be sure to line the lens up with one of the diamond-shaped gaps.
If you are not using a SLR with a telephoto lens, then the lens on your point and shoot camera will likely be small enough to actually fit through the gaps in the fence.
You can get some pretty amazing shots this way. For instance, in baseball and softball games, I will line up behind home plate and get a lot of great shots of the pitcher going through their complete windup and pitch. I have also shot batters and catchers this way.
All of these were shot through the fence.
Try it and you'll see -- it's not as hard as you think!
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thanks for the tips! Great shots! But what is you are at the zoo and can't get that close to the fence?
Thanks in advance! Sadie
That's a good question! I have brought my camera to the zoo many times, and know exactly what you are talking about.
You might try standing on a bench of other structure to see if you can get your angle of view above the fence.
But there are some displays where the fence is too high or forms a complete cage (like for the monkeys). In those situations you may be completely out of luck.
If you have a long telephoto lens (something at 300mm and longer), then you might be able to get decent photos if the animal is far away from the fence. You will just have to experiment and see what you can get.
Thanks,
Chris
I just remembered. The last photo in the article (the one that shows the batter, pitcher, and outfielder) was taken in a similar position you described. I could get no closer than 2 or 3 feet from the netting behind home plate. So I just pulled out my longest lens and took this photo.
If you look closely, you can faintly see the lines where the netting crosses the photo. It's almost like the light wrapped itself around the netting and still gave me a clear photo!
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