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14JAN2026 – Photo of the Day
Orion's Cold Fire
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
What lens were you shooting? Zooming way in to isolate just one, maybe two of the drops would be nice but you would have to be shooting a 1:1 macro or better. Your 90mm 2.8 (if it works 😉 would fit the bill.
That was the 90mm. I have a bunch of water droplet photos coming up. But none of them were even 1:1. So the digital zooming does some damage to the image.
My latest camera is 63 megapixel, but I can increase the image size by only roughly 1:1.4 times on a single side. Your A7IV on a tripod, close as possible and plenty of shutter speed and high f stop as possible while keeping ISO 8,000 of less outta give you some great drop shots. Kick the ISO up if necessary. You can send the shot to me to run through my flippin’ great AI denoise program but you NEED hi shutter and high f. If it’s too big a file for email, do you have dropbox? Min focus distance for… Read more »
But all that will have to wait for spring. We have no liquid water at the moment. Those photos were taken in August.
That would tend to make the morning shower sorta painful, no? More like a sand blasting.
What I mean to say is that in the colder third of the year when I venture out for some photography I’ll do the ice and snow thing. In July when the temperatures are reliably above the freezing point of water I do my rain and dew drop shots. I guess I could make my own water drops indoors and put them on something scenic like Camera Girl’s tropical plants. Actually that might be fun. After this darn book launch I might try that sometime in February. Can’t do too much at once. I’ve limited band-width just now. Job and… Read more »