OK So I have a funny story of how this image came about today. To make a long story short, we had a nice beautiful snowfall last night of about 3" of large puffy flakes covering the tree limbs so elegantly. My PLAN was to go out and capture a nice winter scene of fresh powdery snow lining the braches with fast moving clouds above using a slightly longer shutter speed to creatively blur the sky using a Polarizer & 2 step ND Grad Filters. (*It WAS a Great Plan)
Obviously that's not what your looking at because Mr. "I have a Plan" went to go out for the tree shot and got involved in several emails and a few friends calling and before I knew it, it was past noon. the sun had come up along with the wind blew/melted all the snow off the trees to my surprise LOL. I even drove out into the mountains that surround my house and still No Joy there. So I found myself back at my home in the driveway where I spotted this mini Christmas tree that I have on both sides of my driveway covered in water drops (ie. ya know the SNOW that melted off of it LOL) and saw the cool reflections in the drops & the sun light clipping off the lower left drop where the small sun ray can be seen. On the left side of the right drop is a reflection of "Mr. I Have a Plan" too LOL
It was freezing out and very windy so I just hand held the shot, manual focused to the best I could at 3" away and blasted off a quick 30 frames and headed inside. I managed to get ONE good one as you see here, all the rest were blurred or miss focused because of the short distance & DOF I was using.
But I thought it turned out pretty cool with nice colors in the drops, good reflections of the bush buds and the right droplet having the leaf behind it being refracted in the drop making it look like it's inside of it.
So that's my story and I'm sticking to it LOL Hope you enjoyed my misery and sorry I missed the snow fall shot I planned on taking, It WOULD have been nice :) Thanks for all the well wishes on my health yesterday guys & gals! As always they are much appreciated ;)
~Bill~
Obviously that's not what your looking at because Mr. "I have a Plan" went to go out for the tree shot and got involved in several emails and a few friends calling and before I knew it, it was past noon. the sun had come up along with the wind blew/melted all the snow off the trees to my surprise LOL. I even drove out into the mountains that surround my house and still No Joy there. So I found myself back at my home in the driveway where I spotted this mini Christmas tree that I have on both sides of my driveway covered in water drops (ie. ya know the SNOW that melted off of it LOL) and saw the cool reflections in the drops & the sun light clipping off the lower left drop where the small sun ray can be seen. On the left side of the right drop is a reflection of "Mr. I Have a Plan" too LOL
It was freezing out and very windy so I just hand held the shot, manual focused to the best I could at 3" away and blasted off a quick 30 frames and headed inside. I managed to get ONE good one as you see here, all the rest were blurred or miss focused because of the short distance & DOF I was using.
But I thought it turned out pretty cool with nice colors in the drops, good reflections of the bush buds and the right droplet having the leaf behind it being refracted in the drop making it look like it's inside of it.
So that's my story and I'm sticking to it LOL Hope you enjoyed my misery and sorry I missed the snow fall shot I planned on taking, It WOULD have been nice :) Thanks for all the well wishes on my health yesterday guys & gals! As always they are much appreciated ;)
~Bill~
OK So I have a funny story of how this image came about today. To make a long story short, we had a nice beautiful snowfall last night of about 3" of large puffy flakes covering the tree limbs so elegantly. My PLAN was to go out and capture a nice winter scene of fresh powdery snow lining the braches with fast moving clouds above using a slightly longer shutter speed to creatively blur the sky using a Polarizer & 2 step ND Grad Filters. (*It WAS a Great Plan)
Obviously that's not what your looking at because Mr. "I have a Plan" went to go out for the tree shot and got involved in several emails and a few friends calling and before I knew it, it was past noon. the sun had come up along with the wind blew/melted all the snow off the trees to my surprise LOL. I even drove out into the mountains that surround my house and still No Joy there. So I found myself back at my home in the driveway where I spotted this mini Christmas tree that I have on both sides of my driveway covered in water drops (ie. ya know the SNOW that melted off of it LOL) and saw the cool reflections in the drops & the sun light clipping off the lower left drop where the small sun ray can be seen. On the left side of the right drop is a reflection of "Mr. I Have a Plan" too LOL
It was freezing out and very windy so I just hand held the shot, manual focused to the best I could at 3" away and blasted off a quick 30 frames and headed inside. I managed to get ONE good one as you see here, all the rest were blurred or miss focused because of the short distance & DOF I was using.
But I thought it turned out pretty cool with nice colors in the drops, good reflections of the bush buds and the right droplet having the leaf behind it being refracted in the drop making it look like it's inside of it.
So that's my story and I'm sticking to it LOL Hope you enjoyed my misery and sorry I missed the snow fall shot I planned on taking, It WOULD have been nice :) Thanks for all the well wishes on my health yesterday guys & gals! As always they are much appreciated ;)
~Bill~
Obviously that's not what your looking at because Mr. "I have a Plan" went to go out for the tree shot and got involved in several emails and a few friends calling and before I knew it, it was past noon. the sun had come up along with the wind blew/melted all the snow off the trees to my surprise LOL. I even drove out into the mountains that surround my house and still No Joy there. So I found myself back at my home in the driveway where I spotted this mini Christmas tree that I have on both sides of my driveway covered in water drops (ie. ya know the SNOW that melted off of it LOL) and saw the cool reflections in the drops & the sun light clipping off the lower left drop where the small sun ray can be seen. On the left side of the right drop is a reflection of "Mr. I Have a Plan" too LOL
It was freezing out and very windy so I just hand held the shot, manual focused to the best I could at 3" away and blasted off a quick 30 frames and headed inside. I managed to get ONE good one as you see here, all the rest were blurred or miss focused because of the short distance & DOF I was using.
But I thought it turned out pretty cool with nice colors in the drops, good reflections of the bush buds and the right droplet having the leaf behind it being refracted in the drop making it look like it's inside of it.
So that's my story and I'm sticking to it LOL Hope you enjoyed my misery and sorry I missed the snow fall shot I planned on taking, It WOULD have been nice :) Thanks for all the well wishes on my health yesterday guys & gals! As always they are much appreciated ;)
~Bill~
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