I posted these pics of raindrops on roses almost 2 years ago.
The light was low so the quality wasn't great.
I couldn't work out what these "craters" were. Surely a raindrop must be spherical?
I posted them up on the microscope forum last night and got these responses:
http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9324
For busy 4AoSers, the answer is that they are actually refractions of other drops behind the main one.
The head's sharp but the aperture was too open so the body's out of focus.
Ah it could have been a real winner...
Still, not bad for an "in the field" shot.
I tried several times over the summer to find insects at sunrise, hoping to find dewdrops on them. This daddy long legs was the only success. Not very sharp, unfortunately:
I've been talking about the problem of DOF in Macro photography, and here's another example.
You can focus on the lovely scene visible in this raindrop hanging from a thorn:
The scene is pin-sharp but the thorn and drop are out of focus.
Or you can focus on the thorn, but the scene is lost:
An impossible problem. Unless... you stack the two images, and then each part of the 2 images is focused. Magic!
Can't resist Photoshopping it:
I've been revisiting some of the photos from last month's snow fall. Here's a house through some melting drops:
Ooo if I could have got a bit closer, this would have been a GREAT shot. As it is, you can only just make out the lake and sunset in the large water drop on the back of this swan:
A melted snow drop in Enfield Park
Zooming in:
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