Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>><Snip> >> Actually I have been trying to figure out how to do some decent 'rain' >> photography. >> >> sl > > Rain moves a lot faster than you think it does. You can maybe get it at your > highest shutter speed but maybe no. At 125th it wont look like rain it will look > like fog. Here in the mid-Atlantic during the summer we get these incredible afternoon thunder/rain storms, like standing in a shower. > And at 1000th even with Neopan 1600 you may not get enough depth of field with > the aperture you have to end up using. > Some of the best rain shots I've gotten with a flash. > (Also good for astrophotography on dark nights) > > the flash goes off at a 20/000 of a second and will capture the rain. Good advise. > > I got sleet in the air and ground though with my Leica. Wonder if I should get a Nikonos? > > Frozen ice must fall much slower i was amazed i got it. > > IN Hollywood the rain only exists a few feet from the camera. I hear they don't > shoot in real rain because it does not look like real rain. > > Perhaps a garden hose would help out that project? Yes Hollywood uses a garden hose. > > > Mark Rabiner > and a water truck > > Portland, Oregon > USA > What I am thinking though is not trying to photograph the rain/water, but the effects of rain, water logged people, people with umbrellas, splashes in puddles, etc, etc Thanks Mark, sl