Tip for Rain Photography

Most photographers prefer not to venture out in rain to get a perfect picture, all to keep their equipments safe. Well one should know that ‘rain photography’, is one of the best to get good images if exposed well.


I tried to catch the movement of the women as well as get the rain drops (top Left),
In the next picture I wanted to get some close up of the drops of water (top)
and in this 1991 photo taken on M G Road for Times of India showing the water drops on top a car bonnet (left).



In this picture taken in Bhopal during the tribal protest against the Digvijay Singh Government their was a downpour which was relenting to go, and I wanted to shoot a image to show only the umbrellas from a height. So I climbed this 12 floor residential building to get this image for the Hindustan Times - Bhopal Edition, which got a display of six columns on the front page.


TIP: Use the low lighting condition to your advantage and lessen the shutter speed using aperture priority mode. Always try and get a dark background, and use a zoom lens rather than a wide lens. The zoom lens will help you to capture the water droplets and also give the field of depth which is required for any good rain pictures.

Shutter Speed bracket: s 1/ 30 or s 1/60 Aperture bracket: f: 8 or f: 11


The family running in the rain was taken at f:8 with 1/60 of second (top left), the girl on the bike was at f:11 with 1/60 of a second and the last picture was taken at f:11 with a shutter speed of 1/15 of second.

Note: all the pictures were taken with a 70 -200 mm, f:2.8 lens.




http://epaper.dnaindia.com/dnabangalore/epapermain.aspx?queryed=7&eddate=7%2f25%2f2009

The link above is the page in DNA- Bangalore where the tips are given.