"Rain" - There are many different ways of portraying rain:
1. The threat of rain: dark storm clouds on the horizon
2. Actual rain: falling, perhaps using a long exposure
3. The impact of rain: as it splashes into the ground
4. The evidence of rain: drops on a window, a rainbow
My goal in approaching this project was to avoid photographing actual rain, but to suggest rain. My first thought was a pair of muddy shoes dropped on dirty and wet newspaper, however, I changed my mind. just after a re3cent rain storm I was walking past some ground covering plants with large fleshy leaves. The leaves were covered in water drops. Looking closely I could see that the leaves were covered in fine hairs on which the water was able to collect and form droplets.
Recently I have been doing a lot of Macro studies of plants that I found in the garden, so this fitted well with my current activities. I gathered a few of the leaves and arranged them on my table. A water spray created the necessary "rain" and I mounted a 100mm Macro lens on my camera. What I wanted from this shot was a suggestion of rain in an extreme close up of the leaf that was quite abstract.
The following were all ideas around this theme:
For my chosen single image I cropped in very closely on a single leaf with just the center of the image fully in focus
Canon EOS 5D MkII, 100mm, f/8, 1/125s, ISO 100
Well that's it, all I now need to do is to finalize my Assignment 5:)
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