Misty rain on cypress

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Misty rain on cypress

Postby johnd on Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:47 am

We had a fine misty rain the other morning (it is Hobart you know) and I quite liked the effect of the tiny droplets on our little cypress tree.

D70, Sigma 150mm macro, with bounced flash from SB800.

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Postby dodge on Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:22 am

The first words that came out when i saw your pic was "holy crap WOW"..That is a truly amazing pic...Very well done...

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Postby Alpha_7 on Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:34 am

That is very very cool, I assume you took more then just this shot ?
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Postby aussichef on Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:41 am

I really like the image too
very well done
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Postby Oscar on Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:24 pm

WOW John you sure got interesting effects from those droplets.

Nice spotting. Cool capture.

Cheers, Mick :) :) :)
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Postby colin_12 on Thu Jan 25, 2007 3:24 pm

This is a nice water shot John.
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Postby radar on Thu Jan 25, 2007 3:56 pm

Very nice shot John,

pretty amazing how the cypress "collected" all of those droplets.

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Postby johnd on Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:40 am

Thanks for the comments Joe, Craig, Warren, Mick, Colin and Andre.

Craig, I've added thumbnails to my other keepers so you can see afew more. Took about 20 or 30 but these 5 are the best of the bunch.

Andre, I think I know what you mean by "collected". There were no spray bottles used in the making of these images. The morning rain/mist was so fine it coated everything with very small droplets. I've corrected the spelling too, sorry if anyone from Cyprus was offended. :wink:

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Postby Killakoala on Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:03 pm

That's fantastic John. I tried that style once before on one of the early challenges, but got nowhere near as good as that :)
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Postby radar on Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:37 pm

John,

johnd wrote:Andre, I think I know what you mean by "collected". There were no spray bottles used in the making of these images. The morning rain/mist was so fine it coated everything with very small droplets.


didn't really mean anything by collected, I was just really commenting on how amazing the drops just hung on to the cypress as if it was building a collection of them :D :D

Mother Nature is always full of amazing events.

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Postby Alpha_7 on Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:31 pm

johnd wrote:Thanks for the comments Joe, Craig, Warren, Mick, Colin and Andre.

Craig, I've added thumbnails to my other keepers so you can see afew more. Took about 20 or 30 but these 5 are the best of the bunch.

Andre, I think I know what you mean by "collected". There were no spray bottles used in the making of these images. The morning rain/mist was so fine it coated everything with very small droplets. I've corrected the spelling too, sorry if anyone from Cyprus was offended. :wink:

Cheers
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Thanks for a few more thumbnails, love the affect :)
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