You can also experiment with different images on the Plamp to be reflected in your raindrop. It should be in focus in your viewfinder. Now move the flower and Plamp to where it's in a straight line between your camera and the drop. Take the second flower and attach it to the Plamp. One way to do this to use a device called a Plamp, a plastic arm-like instrument that attaches to your tripod and is used to hold items in place for picture-taking.įirst, focus your macro lens on the center of the raindrop falling off the petal, where the image will appear. Let's say you're taking a photograph of a raindrop falling off the petal of a flower, and you want to reflect another object in the raindrop - in this case, another flower. In addition, it's possible to reflect whole images in the raindrop. This creates the appearance of blue raindrops falling on glass. You can experiment with lots of different backgrounds to generate different effects, like the reflection of a blue object in the raindrops against a light background. Think of it as creating a sort of optical illusion. Let's say you have a green forest with a blue sky behind your window - obscure the background enough and you can cause the raindrops to appear blue and green against a dark background.
#Raindrops on window how to#
In this next section, we'll discuss how to create the illusion of colored raindrops using macro photography.īy obscuring the actual background image, you can cause it to be reflected into the raindrops themselves.
#Raindrops on window manual#
If you're using a camera without manual settings, experiment with the automatic settings until you find a way to focus on the raindrops. Once again, shoot with the aperture wide open in order to keep the background out of focus. You can shoot as the rain is coming down or shortly after the rain has fallen and the drops sit on the window. Find a clean window with a fairly plain background.
Now let's say that instead of taking pictures of raindrops on a flower or a leaf, we want to shoot a close up of a drop as it falls on a window. One recommended camera setting is shooting with the aperture wide open to give a blurry background while focused on the drop, and with an ISO of around 100 to 400. Now, you should be ready to take your shot. When you're ready, focus your macro lens on the center of the drop. Be careful not to bump the flower or you might lose your selected raindrop. Curve on a snowy forest road Pickup trucks turning a curve in a highway in a snowy pine forest in Canada. Window on a rainy day A glass with raindrops on a rainy day reveals the traffic lights on the other side. Try to find a raindrop you can shoot through if you want to catch a reflection of other objects in the water. Raindrops falling on the leaves of a plant with the background blurred in slow motion.
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