taking pics of rain (2 Viewers)

[La La]

it was bucketing today. it was like shards of silver falling from the sky and i couldnt get a good shot.

any tips/techniques for capturing it all mid-air?

 

[RSJ]

Fast shutter speed should catch rain. Or you could get a good movie-pissing down effect if you put it on a slowish shutter speed.

 

[dudley]

pictures of rain and wet things, i like

here is a street in prague, after a bit of rain

 

[Space]

Make sure you keep your camera dry!!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[pete]

here dudley find that jon pack photo of the shower at the blue lagoon

it's deadly

 

[dudley]

this one?

 

[Space]

What RSJ said about fast shutter speed. Does your camera have a sports function? Like a wee man running or something. The one below was taken with the sports /action setting on my old camera.

 

[Squiggle]

It's much easier if the rain is frozen like this picture I took in the very early hours of Christmas Day 2004

 

[Thebeard]

It's much easier if the rain is frozen like this picture I took in the very early hours of Christmas Day 2004

Very nice work

 

[Squiggle]

Thanks Morg I can't even remember what I was doing up in the pre dawn hours (perhaps taking a sneaky peak at my pressies).

 

[La La]

this one?

oh my lord. that! that's what i wanna be able to do - but with rainy things.

*memo to self* get a good camera you nerdlinger.*

lads i dont think my cybershot can do the whole shutterspeed thing......

 

[dudley]

that was taken by my pal jon, who's a camera freak, has an amaaaazing collection of cameras and is a total leica freak.
he's made me obsessed with leica, one day i will have robbed enough money to pay for one. incredible camera's

 

[dudley]

way off topic, but here are some of jons hits, and reasons why i want a leica

 

[Space]

lads i dont think my cybershot can do the whole shutterspeed thing......

Should have an action/sports setting though, no? Which is basically a fast shutter speed setting. I'm trying to amke out the control wheel on the back from a picture but it's pretty difficult.

 

[pete]

that was taken by my pal jon, who's a camera freak, has an amaaaazing collection of cameras and is a total leica freak.
he's made me obsessed with leica, one day i will have robbed enough money to pay for one. incredible camera's

thing is, he only had a wee digital jobby with him in Iceland (as far as I saw, anyway), so i don't understand how he gets such amazing results.

I find it all terribly depressing.

 

[La La]

hmmmm.

*thinks*

didnt ICUH8N say that a leica is a bad investment?

*waits*

 

[JohnnyRaz]

more watery fun

 

[pete]

i couldn't find any rain so i took a picture of the tap in my kitchen sink instead

 

[dudley]

nah, a vintage leica could never be a bad investment. i don't even know what they have, but there's something magical about their pictures.

check some galleries online, some astonishing street photography with them. advantage they have is being so wee, and immediate, that they capture moments other users miss

nixon bullying kruschev

wow, even more off topic, apologies....

 

[ICUH8N]

Leicas are a terrible investment. They are overpriced, have an extremely limited application compared to almost every other system, and are terrible for taking pictures of rain. They're never going to appreciate in value, they won't help you take better pictures, and they're kind of a pain in the ass.

They are also beautiful cameras.
I will never, ever regret having bought my leica and more importantly, leica lenses. Most of the photos I've posted here were shot with a lens manufactured 15 years before I was born.
I bought my leica completely on spec, without ever having taken a photograph, 18 months ago. Since then I've dropped it, stood in the rain with it for hours, been out drinking with it over one shoulder countless times, and I still smile sometimes when I look at it.
It's just a camera though. People shoot the hell out of €100 K1000s every day, and produce far, far better pictures than I do. It's not a magic paintbrush, but if you know you want one, I can highly recommend it.