Hi all,
This part is about drops in action (i.e. rain, rain drops, etc). This is quite challenging because the timing of the drop is always tough so it requires patience, and since it's very wet when it rains, protecting one's photographic gear is another issue. I almost gave up and thought about shooting milk drop indoor since it's much easier since the milk is "milky white".
Anyhow, here they are. 
Trí
Hi Tri',
ReplyDeleteThanks for your entries. I love these entries, specially no. 372 and 388. The rain on the cactus (no. 372) is absolutely gorgeous.
How did you protect your photographic gears? I tried to hold an umbrella, but of course, that did not work, so I had to wait for the rain to subside and took a chance with the drizzling rain.
MC
Hi Mai-Chau,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the compliments. For rain's shoot I usually have the followings:
to protect my gear, I use plastic food wrap or just a common plastic bag (or a shower cap) & wrap it like the enclosed pix
umbrella & tripod (unless you have an assistant holding the umbrella for you )
1 cái ghế đẩu thấp (do you think I kneel on the rain?!! ... )
towel to wipe if needed
Of course you have to endure the rain (i.e. get wet ... ), and keep shooting until you get what you want.... Yes, cái ghế đẩu thấp will be very handy for shooting the "landing drops".
Hope this will help
Trí
Hi Tri',
DeleteThank you so much for the very detailed tips. It will be very handy next time it rains here.
I wish I had an assistant holding an umbrella for me, but then that poor assistant would have to do so much more, such as holding my hot chocolate mug so I could sip from time to time to keep me warm and patient in the rain :-)
No.1 tip with photo illustration is specially helpful. No wonder why my camera is no longer working after only l year and 3 months under my abusive treatment, such as taking it out in the rain unprotected one too many times, to the beach when it was windy, aiming the lenses towards the sun.
I can endure the rain, as a matter of fact I had quite a few times; I would even kneel on the rain if necessary. But the idea of the ghe^' dda^u? is really great (how come I did not think of this before?). Can you ask Trang to take a picture of you kneeling on the "ghe^' ddau^?" next time you take pictures in the rain so we could imitate you? :-) :-)
Have a nice relaxing Sunday
MC
Hi Tri'.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the photos and the tips. With the pic of the apple that I put under the
robinet, I tried to catch the drops 'in the air' but it's too tough :-)
BT
Hi MC,
ReplyDeleteKhông có "kneel" trên ghế, chỉ có ngồi "chỏ hỏ" thôi. That's why I said "1 cái ghế đẩu thấp"...
Quên 1 tip quan trọng:
Because your camera will be wrapped, set your camera's settings (i.e. ISO, speed, aperture, White Balance, etc.) before you wrapped it. Once you got out on the rain it's very awkward to change settings thru that plastic bag. You have to trust your camera AF, because the viewfinder won't be clear to look thru it.
Happy Easter Sunday...
Trí
P.S. Aiming the lens toward the sun won't hurt your lens or camera, but will definitely hurt your eyes...
Hi Tri',
ReplyDeleteThanks for the clarification and the additional tip, which is actually, as you said, crucial. This additional tip made me think that perhaps I should forget about the whole experimentation.
I must say that I truly admire your dedication and skill as a Pho' nhom\.
Happy Easter Sunday to you and Trang
MC
PS: re: aiming the lens towards the sun , That's true that it hurt my eyes. But the manual for my Canon G-12 also said that it could result in malfunction of the sensor.
Anyway, I did that a lot. I don't know whether it was one of the reason why my Canon is no longer working - all the shots came out so overexposed that they were white, it did not matter whether I use automatic settings and tried playing with the aperture. Before that, they came out all black
MC