Blog of Kim Loon

It was raining very heavily when I woke up in the morning. It is still raining when I am writing this post.

At idea came to me as I open my eyes. Why not, I set my lens to manual mode, switch on the flash, set the shutter speed to be very fast and shoot at the rain? Maybe I could get some shots of the rain drops.

I quickly got out of the bed and tried it out.

100mm, 1/200s, f/2.8 ISO 400

Shooting straight - 17mm, 1/200s, ISO 400

Shooting Downwards - 17mm, 1/200s, f/2.8, ISO 400

The effect look very snowy and artistic to me.

After the a few rounds, I concluded the following:

• It does not matter, if I set to manual or automatic focus. The best is the distance subject is in focus. It provides some form of background. Even if the subject is out of focus, it could be artistic in some form.
• I set the highest shutter speed. I don’t know why, when I switch on the flash unit, the camera only around 1/200s as fastest shutter speed. I think I need to read up on this.

I had some fun using my camera.