I have seen pictures like this...

[mostlysunny]

"like" this... and have always wanted to take one 'like" it.. All the freeway over passes here have a chain link fence in front of them.. plus VERY BRIGHT lights...
I know my camera can blur out the fence and focus on whats in front of it.. I know this cause I did this once.. on accident when my Son was playing baseball. It was dark, and late, and I was tired, and left my Dummies for Canon 7D in the car-- So, I either need to play with my camera and figure out how to let the camera auto focus, and let me hold the shutter open.. or find an over pass with a chain link fence.

 

[mostlysunny]

https://scontent-a-lax.xx.fbcdn.net...=621152fdef5db6cbbe5dd814cc304266&oe=55560B68

 

[snowbear116 47]

Did you take this photo or have permission to distribute it? If not, the TPF rules are that you really need to provide a link to the image.

You might have some success getting rid of the fence by using a large aperture and making sure you focus past it. Use manual focus, if necessary; read the manual to see how the controls work.

 

[pgriz]

Get close to the fence (almost touching it) and use a wide aperture. Use manual focus and focus it on the mid-distance. Of course, camera on tripod. ISO as low as you can go (probably 100). Shutter speed anywhere from 1 second to 20 seconds.

The wide aperture and the manual focus will together put the chain link fence out of focus and perhaps almost invisible. The tripod is needed for the long exposure. The long exposure is needed to get the trails of lights on the roads.

Take a picture, check whether your focus was in the right place, and whether the exposure was too short or too long. Adjust and re-shoot.

 

[dennybeall]

Also find fence that doesn't have lights on it. The fence in the link from mostlysunny was lighted and not close so showed up in the photo.
For instance: There was the same fence in front of my lens as

the one you see behind the wolves in this picture and you can't really hardly see it

 

[bratkinson]

Actually, I think the fence in the picture adds some interest to the picture. But then, my sense of 'aesthetics' and 'taste' has been called derogatory terms numerous times.

As mentioned above, get close to the fence, and, if possible, even stick the lens through the fence. If the lens won't fit, then get as close as you can...less than an inch or so. Believe it or not, the links of the fence somewhat disappear! And if they don't, then simply crop them out of the photo during post processing. There have been a number of occasions when I have to shoot through a chain-link fence to get some train pictures I want to shoot. Sometimes, leaving the fence in the picture breaks up an otherwise somewhat boring group of shots from the same location and perspective.

 

[TCampbell]

"like" this... and have always wanted to take one 'like" it..

The light trails are created by allowing the camera shutter to remain open for many seconds. But in order to get away with that, you have to make sure that the camera cannot move while the shutter is open... it can't even move a very tiny bit or it'll ruin the shot.

To keep the camera from moving, the "go to" tool of choice is a camera tripod.

A very wide aperture (low f-stop) while focusing at a distant point will cause the foreground to be heavily blurred... so much so that you probably won't be able to see the fence. But this may have two undesirable side-effects.

1) it may also blur some of the roadway below depending on the f-stop (aperture) you select and the focus distance you select. You may need to experiment with f-stop and focus distance to find something that can blur the fence while not blurring the roadway ... and

2) if you use a large aperture, the camera collects light faster and this can over-expose the shot. To avoid over-exposure you might try to compensate by using a shorter shutter exposure. But the shorter shutter exposure can result in not having enough time to create long light trails. To get around that problem you can use a "neutral density" filter in front of the lens. Think of this as sunglasses... for your lens. It's job is simply to cut the amount of light that can pass through -- and this would allow you to extend the amount of time that you keep the shutter open BUT.... at the same time you don't have to stop down the aperture (because stopping it down too much would start to bring that fence into focus.)

I have no done a shot like this, at night, through a fence... I'm sharing my thoughts on how I might try to approach this challenge.

Good luck!

 

[Braineack]

eh. not sure why youd want to show the fence.

 

[DoctorDino]

I've seen a lot of photographers take pictures like that and leave the fence in so they have something interesting in the foreground.

examples Instagram or Instagram

Of course that's their taste. If you don't want the fence in the picture, do what pgriz said and use a wide aperture.

 

[yellow ant]

Actually, I think the fence in the picture adds some interest to the picture. But then, my sense of 'aesthetics' and 'taste' has been called derogatory terms numerous times.

As mentioned above, get close to the fence, and, if possible, even stick the lens through the fence. If the lens won't fit, then get as close as you can...less than an inch or so. Believe it or not, the links of the fence somewhat disappear! And if they don't, then simply crop them out of the photo during post processing. There have been a number of occasions when I have to shoot through a chain-link fence to get some train pictures I want to shoot. Sometimes, leaving the fence in the picture breaks up an otherwise somewhat boring group of shots from the same location and perspective.

Agree with this reply, better with the fence otherwise just another photo of a couple of animals