Get your digital camera on a rainy day

Jan 6
09:32

2012

LiuJiajia

LiuJiajia

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While most photographers prefer to stay home when bad weather strikes, but those who have courage (and appropriate precautions) can discover the wonderful opportunities that arise with a digital camera handy.

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There are many settings to take advantage of your digital camera. The rain makes all the thousand and one reflections adding in the cities,Get your digital camera on a rainy day Articles creating an evocative haze in the distance and distracting everyone around you are providing the perfect opportunity to portray in their careers and haste. Consider:

- Clouds with personality: Depending on the region and weather conditions under which we find we are a true spectacle overhead. Too bad there are more classics uninteresting gray skies but even with these, you may want to give us somewhere around where the landscape is homogeneous as the beach or a field of wheat.

- After the Storm: Ignoring the classic rainbow, the hours after a storm are fantastic to continue taking pictures of things around us. Since the drops that cover everything up reflections from puddles. Furthermore, after a good rain in which the sun rises will see that the atmosphere is completely clean, giving a quite spectacular sunrises and sunsets.

- No flash and backlight: With the integrated digital camera flash only get settings for the magic of the scene, while you draw a curtain of water in front of yours. If you can separate it from the camera the picture changes, as this can give some volume drops next shot at an angle of 45 or 90 degrees (it is also interesting flash sync second curtain to drop "frozen" is in the bottom of the trail and up). In any case, with or without flash, it is important never your fire with the sun at your back, as the rain appear gray and dull.

- Expand the rain with an angle: Though not a rigid rule in general ought to take into account that a telephoto lens compresses perspective creating a veil if the rain is intense.

- Slow or fast? Different digital camera shutter speeds allow us to achieve different effects. With slow (between 1 / 30 and 1 / 15 sec depending on the intensity of the rain) you will get a nice long lines, while other faster (in 1 / 400 and up) will succeed in freezing the droplets in the air creating a unreal landscape.

White and black

Although these days are usually pretty gray already offer a great excuse to practice our mastery of black and white or sepia adding more drama to your images.

With a digital camera, especially if it has a couple of years, it takes a longer time to start, focus and shoot in the traditional analog cameras. Therefore usually not easy to grasp an object with a clearly acceptable when it is in motion.

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