For this part of the exercise, we were encouraged to take our cameras out & capture some ‘wet’ images…
These were not very successful. You can see it has been raining—it’s wet and grey—but there’s nothing special. I like the images posted by Danny Santos here, here and here—links also at the bottom of this post. Whereas mine are flat and inactive—his show activity and response to the rain—there is action [and reaction to the weather] in them. And I really like the umbrellas!
Guess from looking at his—after I had taken these—that if I were to do something associated with rain as an assignment—my path would be influenced by his images.
On the post-processing side; the images were set to a WB of cloudy in Lightroom; and it has warmed them up a fair amount—and I think they look better for it. So you know just how drab they were before.
1/240 sec at f/8.0 | ISO 800
1/320 sec at f/8.0 | ISO 800
1/300 sec at f/8.0 | ISO 800
1/340 sec at f/8.0 | ISO 800
Ah ha, just catching up on your blog and noticed you linked to the Danny Santos rain images. Wish I’d read your blog before I did this exercise, but suffering from lack of time! Just wondering, how did you go about linking to his images? Did you get in touch with him? I was wondering whether or not to link to the image I mentioned in my blog but was worried about how to reference it properly. Cheers, Barry
Hi Barry I did not contact Danny because I had not actually put the image on my site—just made a link to his—so I think that is all above aboard to just do it that way. Are you also talking technically how I did the link? If so, I went to his relevant page and copied the url; then back to my wp and in the window above where you type the post gubbins—there’s an icon with a chain/link. So typed ‘my words’ for the link, then clicked the link icon and pasted in the url in the db that appeared. I always check ‘open in new window’. Hope that helps!!