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Water Droplet Pictures

Some pictures of water droplets after a rainfall.

After a very long time, I am posting something non-technical with the goal of bringing back some variety on this blog. Its also been long since I posted any of my photos, so I thought I'd start by posting a relatively smaller set of pictures than usual.

I found some really beautiful water droplets on leaves, grass blades, and flowers left behind after a midnight rainfall during a morning jog. I had to return with my camera...

By the way, this is my first photo set where I started shooting in RAW mode, and the differences in terms of what you can do with your pictures in terms of processing workflow is quite simply amazing. I think I am a RAW convert... this obviously entails a new wave of learning, and yet more storage requirements... both seem to be a given with digital photography.

[ Tags: photography ]

Posted on Saturday, 11/12/2005 @ 6:47 PM | #Photography

Comments

7 comments have been posted.

Mikael Söderström

Posted on 11/13/2005 @ 2:02 AM

Nice!

I am looking for a new camera, and this looks great.. what do you use when you´re taking these pictures?

Thanks,
Mikael

mint

Posted on 11/13/2005 @ 6:14 AM

So nice!:)

Rachit

Posted on 11/13/2005 @ 9:19 AM

Nice work! Did you use any special macro lense or your old 70-300mm? Also, can you also display an option to see EXIF info?

Nikhil Kothari

Posted on 11/13/2005 @ 12:29 PM

I use the Canon Digital Rebel. I suppose its considered an "old" camera now... for this set, all of the pictures were taken using a Quantaray lens (set at 90mm in macro mode).

Regarding the EXIF:
I just noticed the RAW converter didn't transfer EXIF into the jpg files. Apparently it uses the RAW file to display some EXIF in the program, and thumbnails during conversion. So the 300 pictures sitting in the queue won't retain this metadata either! Argh! Good thing you asked, otherwise I'd probably have continued deleting thumbnail files, assuming the metadata was intact. And, I'll look into updating my photo album code to display this info at some point.

Andy Eick

Posted on 11/13/2005 @ 4:13 PM

Did you use photoshop to process you RAW images? I found that the "Save As..." option saves the EXIF values intact, whereas the "Save for web" option does not -- hope this helps. (Try the 100mm f2.8 macro, it's a great lens...)

Nikhil Kothari

Posted on 11/14/2005 @ 10:00 AM

Actually I am using RawShooter from Pixmantec. And that lens sure sounds tempting...

Bertrand

Posted on 11/14/2005 @ 12:36 PM

Very nice. I've been using an extension tube with a cheap fixed 50mm lens for this kind of picture. It's a fantastically efficient and cheap way to get a great macro lens:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/boudin/57430849/

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