Shooting through fences

Shooting through fences can take away from the images you are trying to capture, but it doesn’t have to be that way. With a couple of these methods below we hope to make your photos come out the way you want them to. It would be better to not have a fence or gate in your way – but sometimes that isn’t an option. In those cases, this information may help.

Whats hiding? — What’s hiding behind that fencing?!?

Focal length and aperture

Choose a lens with a long focal length, 200mm or greater works best. Next, select the smallest aperture (F Stop) possible for that lens. Shooting at say F16 would allow the owl and the fencing to both be captured in the image:

Moving to a smaller aperture, F4.5 in the example below, effectively “removes” the fencing from the photograph.

Cropped and adjusted with ON1 Photo RAW and it is like you are with the owl in the habitat:

Shooting through fences – Say no to noise

Another thing that helps is to clean up the noise in your images. Since you may need to pick an aperture and shutter speed that will demand a higher ISO you could end up with a noisy image. We run most of our higher ISO images through ON1’s NoNoise AI. For more information on NoNoise AI, check out our post here. Interested in Bald Eagle photography, here is a post to help you on your way.

Shooting through fences Closeup No Noise

Cascades Raptor Center

These shots were all taken at the Cascades Raptor Center in Eugene Oregon. The Cascades Raptor Center is a nature center and wildlife hospital open to the public year-round. They are home to nearly 40 resident education raptors, most native to the Pacific Northwest. Educational programs are available onsite and offsite for students of all ages. If you are looking for things to do in Eugene, Oregon, the Raptor Center is a great place to bring friends and family.

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