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CalevPhoto

Photographing the Earth, one millimeter at a time…
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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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Posted in Macro photography 1 year, 8 months ago at 3:15 am.

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