Like many who are compelled to make photographs, I carry a camera almost everywhere I go. As regular readers may recall, I involve myself in “Windshield Photography” just about any time I am in an automobile as a non-driving passenger.
Today I rode with my daughter for a few hours over an interstate highway.
One of the difficulties (not to mention the obvious concerns of constantly changing camera angles, movement, etc.) involved in the practice of Windshield Photography is the effect of glass — tinted, reflective, dirty, whatever — interposed between subject and camera lens. Color consistency and fidelity becomes almost impossible to achieve without a lot of post-production work. But conversion to black & white is one possible response, as shown at top and below:
And while we are at it (from today, but not through window glass) …
fwiw …