Another try after the rains. I wish I was better with the camera. The color contrast was so good and this all I can manage. And the amount of rains we got today, let us see if I will have traffic tales to tell tomorrow!
Lazy Sunday Photo- Leaves with Dew Drop
Beautiful compostion too!!
nice contrast..liked the drops a lot
very beautiful and serene…:)
What a brilliant composition. You’ve really got a photographic eye!
have you ever tried using a macro lens or if you dont have a macro lens you can try using a +2 or +4 macro close up lens filter, just screw in to your lens and presto you are ready, that’s what i started with. just my 2 cents.
this is how i did the smoke shot.
in addition to a camera, i also used:
-off camera flash
-incense stick
-black background
-2 pcs of black card
-tripod
my camera settings:
-exposure mode-manual
-shutter speed-1/200
-aperture-f9.5
-ISO-100
-focal length- 48mm
you can see my hardware setup
here and the speedlight setup
here
note: i think the key here is the 2 pcs of black cardboard that must be
attached to both sides of the speedlight to prevent light from falling on the background, btw the image must be taken in a dark room or at night with no or with minimal light.
>PP: it you just want to change the colour of the smoke, just adjust the hue level.
for the rainbow coloured smoke, on another layer I used the gradient tool with rainbow colour, soft light blending mode, flatten, and inverting the tone image to get the white background.
Thanks Lakshmi.
Derek, thank you.
The mosquitoes were biting me continuously when i was clicking the picture Tarun 😀
Thanks Fida, I hope so.
Dave I have a 70 to 300mm Sigma lens. Many thanks for the details, I have to try and understand understand a lot of what you wrote.
Ramesh, copy cat 😀 😀 😀
jus wrote in one word Brilliant..it doesnt accept..hence repeating Swisster comment: What a brilliant composition. You’ve really got a photographic eye!
The drops glisten precariously on the leaves, what a beauty!
Thanks Sanand.
wow pretty! was it a banana leaf? somehow I dont know why but I was reminded so much of the banana leaves that people use in InIndia to eat during festivals!
Doli, these are Frangipani flower leaves.
nice one! i havent been able to get a decent shot of raindrops!
Thanks Anu, hope you will get to click one soon.