I keep experimenting with pictures taken from moving vehicles. There are so many things you see from a car or a train that you’d struggle to compose a perfect shot of otherwise, either because there’s no shoulder to pull over on and it wouldn’t be safe to walk or bike on that road (or it’s simply not allowed, in the case of an interstate).
Basically you have to have a very fast shutter speed and an f-stop somewhere around 7 or 8. That might mean on a cloudy day having to bump up the ISO. If I can’t open the window but the window is at least fairly clean, I’ve tried using my polarizing filter occasionally to see if that helps.
Composing a shot is nearly impossible if you’re going fast—you just have to guess. Sometimes you get it really right, sometimes you get a happy accident. Generally in a fast-moving vehicle, there’s nothing to be gained by shooting at things that are near—I generally pick a distant focal point and cross my fingers, because there’s no time for a lot of manual focus adjustments. (Auto focus in my experience just does not work.)
Assuming the United States doesn’t just collapse into some kind of open civil war after 2024, I’d still love to take another slow drive across the country where photography was the main goal, where someone else drove often enough that I could mix in some car photography.