It's been raining almost every day lately. The humidity is hell on my lenses when I first take the camera outside, but it's worth it! I love the water droplets and the wet, saturated look after a good rain.
Also called Vinca, the Madagascar Periwinkle plant and it's flowers are used to treat diabetes and cancer, and have other medical uses too. Here is WebMD's entry for Madagascar Periwinkle, and here is the wikipiedia article.
A Ray of Sunlight
To get a black background like you see in these images, I need the subject to be significantly brighter than the background. Usually that means adding light with an off-camera flash.
These shots are all natural light, though. How? A tiny beam of sunlight cut through the clouds to light up this little flower. The flower was so bright relative to the background that I was able to get a totally black background without any additional light!
Here is a shot from before the rain.
Canon SL1
Canon 55-250 at 250mm
f/8
ISO 200, 100, 200 respectively
1/400, 1/60, 1/100 shutter respectively
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This is looking so beautiful @mikemacintire. Keep posting your work.
Thank you, I will!
Beautiful pictures!
Thank you. :)
I have these in a pot on my balcony. I love them!
Your capture of the rain drops is incredible, of course. You even managed to get the reflections on the flower. Great job!
Thank you very much!
Rain is fantastic for photography!
amazing photos
Great photos! I used to photograph on many locations in the caribbean, so when leaving the air conditioned environment of the hotel room you should always slowly temper the camera equipment and lenses to the hot humid outside environment otherwise you'll end up with fungus in the lenses and humidity in the camera equipment.
Nicely done dude!