Peter Truman Photography

After several days threatening it eventually rained today, a few heavy showers and just what the plants needed. This evening the sun appeared for a while and cast a lovely light over the border; it would be a shame not to step outside with the macro lens and try to capture a few rain drops on the plants… These are a few of the images that I particularly liked.

For those who like the technical information these were each taken using a Canon 180mm f3.5L macro lens on a Canon 1Ds Mark III. The first two images are with the aperture wide open at f3.5, the third at f10 (but much closer to droplets hence still a shallow depth of field). Getting into some of these spaces with the camera mounted on a tripod can be awkward and very time consuming, so what I often do (and did in these shots) is to handhold the camera and take several pictures in rapid succession holding things as steady as I can. Using a higher ISO (200 – 640) is perfectly possible with this camera, so the image quality is not perceptibly degraded until much higher ISO settings are used. The downside to this approach is that there is a little more work to do later in deleting the out of focus or blurred images, but this is something that can be done in Aperture very quickly.