Shooting the rain

Well , you can't really shoot the rain using pistol but you can using the camera. I have had unfruitfull attempts of shooting rain. Everytime I used to end up shooting objects other than rain.

This made me think, how to shoot rain. I sat down and worked on the mechanics to see what is wrong and I was able figure it out. I was doing it wrong, I was not modifying the focus of the camera to capture the rain. Important thing to note here is that it is focus and not magnication (zoom). Zoom only goes inside into to current view but you need to tell the camera what is my object of interest that needs to be shot.

This image on left is good example of how focus works, check the plant's branch which though is near to the camera but is till blur that is because my focus is far away from branch. No, I didn't wanted to shoot that balcony though there are some hot girls living there, but my intention was to shoot the rain. :)

Another trick that I found worked for me was to increase the time of exposure, now this one can get really messy. You cannot just go on increasing the exposure else you will end up with a white image, but you need to increase a little bit. And again you need to be careful of not pointing your camera directly to sky, this will result in lot light coming into the camera and you can again end up shooting a much brighter image than you actually imagined. Ofcourse if it is a very heavy downpour then there will be no need of all these tricks, rain itself will do the trick.

Last thing to note is that you need to shoot the rain against dark background, because the way humans distinguish things is using the colors...oooh this is my favourit topic......humans would not be able to distinguish things if they are lying over each other and are of exactly same color. This is actually known as Edge detection and is used in robotics.

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Location: Gurgaon
Time: 6/23 12:00 PM