Not your ordinary car exhaust
One of the great things I love about snow is that it has to melt at some time or another. When in melts, I try to be there. Unfortunately, the weather was a bit cold today so not much melted, but I did get the chance to find a few drippies.
Today wasn’t a great day as far as drippies go. Most of the ones I found were either too difficult to get at or weren’t dropping at a quick and predictable rate. I did find this one in a rather unusual place though.
This shot was actually taken by our car exhaust. I found a good drippie there that was dropping at a good rate. Due to its location under my car, I was unable to hold the camera vertically. However, this is a 21 Megapixel image, so if I cut it in half it still wouldn’t be that bad.
Although I caught the drop in the above shot, I like this shot a bit better.
This was the first time I used my Wimberley macro brackets when photographing drops and I like the lighting effect much better. It took a bit of time to get the lights into a position I liked, but once I did I avoided blowing out the drop as I have in past attempts.
I normally use the Wimberley brackets all of the time when I shoot with my 180L – unless I am shooting flowers with a tripod. However, I almost never use them with my MP-E 65 – where they just get in the way. This was the exception though, as I found the lighting effect a strong improvement. Here’s an example of a drop I took last year without the Wimberley brackets.
I like this shot, but the blown out area on the top of the drop is very annoying. As you can see, the Wimberley macro brackets made a big improvement.
Perhaps tomorrow I will be able to find some good drippies and improve on this shot.
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