704 - It's In The Rain



Today I have seen images of hurricane Ike on The Big Picture. No, I won’t complain about the weather. There’s worse than what rain we have. It rains at the moment, but it is supposed to stop in the night or at least tomorrow.

I still use the 50/1.8, I still photograph from under the umbrella, and when everything else fails, I can always play the old color game. A blue car, a yellow/orange shop, that’s it for today.

The Song of the Day is “It’s In The Rain” from Enya’s 2005 album “Amarantine”. See the video on YouTube.


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My Camera World   (2008-09-16)

Andreas:

This is one of the finest images I have seen to date. I do have a special love of abstract. I like how the contrasting colours play of each other and the different patterns in the orange, somewhat downward and the horizontal in the blue. Great capture

Niels

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Emma   (2008-09-16)

Agreeing with Niels. An old trick, that never fails. 🙂

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Andreas   (2008-09-17)

Thanks. Actually I like it as well. It puts some color into a rainy day. By now it has stopped raining, just as predicted, but it is awfully cold. 8 centigrades this morning, that's down by 20 from Thursday afternoon when all Vienna was swimming 🙂

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Michael   (2008-09-17)

That was a great link to the pictures of Ike. I also really like your picture for the day. I've become something of a DoF fanatic lately.

Now I just need a lens that can do this for me...

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Andreas   (2008-09-17)

Well, actually this was done with a $120 lens, the Nikon 50/1.8D. The secret is only to shoot wide open (f1.8 here) and focus very near, here approximately the nearest focus distance, something about 40cm. Then you only need a bright, colored background that's far away.

I stood in front of a car, focused at the door frame on my side and shot straight over the blue car onto a shop on the other side of the street. No magic.

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Don and Sher   (2008-09-17)

We also love it, rain and color one of my favorites

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Thomas   (2008-09-20)

May I chime in? That's a really gorgeous abstract! Ted can certainly use it as an argument when he's discussing the role of color in modern photography next time 😉

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Paul   (2008-09-20)

Well, this is certainly an effective use of color contrasts. I really like it.

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