Mubashm Loc: Gaithersburg, Maryland

Hi rglucroft, Please don't be disheartened. You can do that without taking so much pain. I took photos from a moving car in Morocco. I posted those on UHH in March 2015. I will give the link to see those pictures. I used Canon 5d Mark iii camera probably with Canon 24-105 lens. I just checked EXIF of three pictures. My ISO was 1250 and shutter speed 1250 or 1600. To press the shutter, you have to be quick. Just the take the picture of a scene you like.



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DougS Loc: Central Arkansas

Practice is the thing! I found pointing it either in the direction of travel, or toward the back of the vehicle. Too much blur when shot at 90 degrees to travel. Practice, practice, practice! You will find your technique by studying what you took. If I am driving, I NEVER shoot with another car approaching. I use a point and shoot (Nikon AW120), with the strap wrapped around my arm, and I don't even look at the camera, just point it in the direction of desired shot, with my camera out the open window. I have even done this in sub-zero temps! Surprising number of decent shots using these techniques. I use my right hand to hold the camera, and push the button, due to button location! Good luck, and be careful above all. No shot is worth an accident.

Chaostrain Loc: Hillsboro, Oregon

I've shot several times from a moving car. I've found the best method for me is to have as fast of a shutter speed as possible, shooting in bursts, panning, and zooming out to keep the focus the farthest out I can. Oh, and be ready to throw a very high percentage of the photos back out the window since they're going to be crap. Other than that, have fun.

RolandDieter

In Europe I have done a lot of shooting from a car or train. Hit rate is far from perfect. Wide angle to allow for later cropping of near misses. I set camera to program ... depending on make it will be sports for fast shutter and avoids focusing on window dirt or objects too close to the car ... or on other cameras it is handheld night scene which, on these cameras, actually works at all hours of the day.

bjprovo Loc: Northeast CT

Well, I guess I am one of those stupid people..I have a beanbag with a screw mount sitting on my dashboard with a tethered remote. Easy enough to just push the button while driving. It seems far safer than changing car entertainment systems which require moving your eyes from the road. None of these pictures will ever hang on my wall but they make for a nice slideshow of trips I have taken.

BebuLamar

My wife took this from the passenger seat with the cell phone while I was driving at 60mph.

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Longaray2

I find that you can get decemt image at camera speeds of 200

Angmo

Issues start gathering around the speed of light... :-)

bjprovo Loc: Northeast CT

Reminds me of an old joke. If you are travelling at the speed of light and turn on your headlights does anything happen?

DJphoto Loc: SF Bay Area

I do virtually all of the driving, so my wife takes the photos, usually with her iPhone X and gets surprisingly good results. We took several excursions on a European cruise this past summer and she got some very good photos shooting through bus windows. I took a few from the aisle seat in the middle of the bus through the windshield with my 18-135 on my Canon 80D zoomed most of the way, which gives an interesting perspective. None of the photos are "wall hangers" but nice memories of where we went and many are in our digital photo frame. More like good snapshots. She also took some video clips through the bus window that give you a good "sense of place" on some of the scenic drives we were on, mostly in Norway.

I also have a windshield mount for my Garmin Virb action camera that I mount by the rear view mirror. I normally take time lapse video that compresses an hour down to about 8 minutes. It gives you an effective speed of around supersonic, but gives you a good sense of where you have been. I wouldn't watch a video at normal speed ("real time") like that, but I will watch the condensed version. I can adjust the playback speed if I want to slow it down for some particularly good sections.

Georgews Loc: Wellington, New Zealand

1: make sure your driver is aware of what you are doing
2: Use a high shutter speed
3: If shooting out side windows ty panning, or use the bur artistically
4: If you are the driver - DON'T - there are more than enough accidents as it is. Pull over and stop.