Tropical Rains..., a photo from Southern Islands, Central

Photographer's Note

Being located in the tropics (one degree off the equator) Singapore has some spectacular rain showers. You can be enjoying a beautiful bright and sunny day one moment, and soaked by torrential rains seemingly the next.
Thankfully, due to the heat and humidity- that can actually be quite pleasant.

This shot was taken just after one of those downpours. What caught my eye was the way the droplets of water looked like mercury.

Hope you like it,
- Dan
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Post Production: Slight sharpening, color saturation, and framing.

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oochappan (4880) 2004-09-29 7:04

Soft coloring and perfect DOF with a fine light green to hold your diamonds makes this pleasant to look at. Very well done, Dan.

Spoony (3539) 2004-09-29 8:24

Nice experience! fine fianl result Dan.
Very good macro here.
Spoony.

ephemere33 (9743) 2004-09-29 9:06

joli effet ces gouttes sur une feuille aussi apres la pluie...belle luminosit�, travail bien nette,couleur bien rendue...j'ai fait pareil avec une toile d'araign馥 dans ma galerie de photo...bien vu...amicalement BI

kikvel (4784) 2004-09-29 9:22

nice macro with an overall green tone...delicate and pleasant.

the DOF is right and the light is good for the reflections on the water drops

Nice Dan

K

RandomCameraGuy (3071) 2004-09-29 10:26

Pretty. But I think it can be improved man.

I suggest selecting the main leaf to a new layer and some heavy levels and curves adj to the 2 layers so as to focus on darkening the background and highlighting the leaf.

Hope this is helpful man!

eleparc (24063) 2004-09-29 11:49

simple , yet very pleasant photo! i like the overall green tone of this shot! nice focus on the droplets and the leaf!
i have a question how do you get this framing with photoshop??

alimo3 (6854) 2004-09-29 16:34

great ! i want to drink the water !
right DOF and colors more than natural

a very good job.

Tom

Aegean (2571) 2004-09-29 17:46

Lovely macro shot Dan...DOF and colors are really perfect. The rain drops are almost leaping of the monitor...Very well done!

rabani (9645) 2004-09-29 21:49

Dan,hie. We being in the same time zone pretty much have the same weather and its attitudes. Just goes to show why your raindrops looked like mine. And so is our camera and the filter we are using. Never done like you said, using double polarizers. I'd imagine it would neutralize or negate each other polarizing but definitely creating a much more underexposure. Unless you used a higher ISO but I hate the grains.

Just be careful when focusing on raindrops. When there's too many of them, people tend to feel confused which one to look at. I usually look for leave which has waxed like epidermial coating. The raindrop is usually bigger and rounder.

Endy (1025) 2004-09-29 21:57

It is a beautiful macro Dan! Water is so well rendered on the leaf. The depth of field is excellent.

Nice composition!

kaychambers (1198) 2004-10-01 2:52

Nice Macro Dan. Good DOF demo and nice how you present the water on the tomato leaf. Didn't realise you had green fingers!

Regards

Vic, Singapore.

OOOPS PTS L8R

orme (7219) 2004-10-01 12:08

An excellent macro shot, Dan. Good DOF. The water droplets on the leaves look so heavy, I am surprised that they just hang there. Wonderful detail and colours. Well done.

dominique (11414) 2004-10-01 14:29

if simple and so beautiful, the light is really very beautiful, likes the small drops and particular framing, well done.

hftey (390) 2004-12-15 2:12

Splendid shot. Love the green and DOF

bt9091 (103) 2005-01-18 19:42

dan,
wow!! i love contrast of the focused drops versus the out of focus drops. the leaf is perfect. and the water looks so crisp and cool, it makes me wish i could drink this water. thanks for sharing!!

alicesprings (0) 2005-02-27 17:07

youve made the most boring thing a leaf with water on it look interesting well done good compositition good array Nice pallette & boquet.