Rain & Shine

When shooting in rain (and in Botswana we don’t get that chance too often, so I am no expert) there are basically two different approaches; one is to use a slow enough shutter speed to blur the rain drops, creating streaks, or two, to use a high shutter speed and freeze the rain drops. The first approach is the more common one, partly probably because of lack of light when it rains. Also it can create very moody shots conveying that bad weather very well. In this case, however, there was enough light (in fact too much light to even consider rain streaks at that FL) due to the conditions, an incoming local storm shower in the late afternoon, resulting in a rainbow against a dark sky plus raindrops reflecting the sunlight.

When a fleeting moment like that occurs you are desperate for a subject in the right place and simply have to be thankful for whatever you can find, even if it is not entirely as you had envisaged or dreamt of. Shooting in these conditions was not easy, but a few seconds later shooting was near impossible as it bucketed down.

Nxai Pan NP, Botswana
Camera Model Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Shutter Speed 1/1000 Sec.
Aperture Value f/8.0
ISO Speed 250
Lens EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 200mm (CP? Not sure)
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