Yes, did it ever! I got a little soaked, and so did the vegetation...but it was perfect for these types of shots. I shot all kinds of things this weekend.
I started up Tumalo Mtn yesterday. It was clear in Bend, but socked in and raining hard up there. I got 30 minutes up the trail, then said screw it and turned back. I shot around Sisters after that. The Balsam Root is beginning to bloom out there (although sparsly).
Today, Coming home by way of Detroit Lake/Salem, I noticed the rhodies starting to bloom and even some bear grass! Of course, the dogwoods are blooming out there too.
I hope somebody was shooting in the hour or so before sunset in PDX metro....lovely lovely skies the past two days, but generic urbana is such a poor frame....
I noticed that too, Eric - reminded me Sean's Rogue Valley image. For me, the urban foreground would have been a Fred Meyer parking lot... not too inspiring!
Rick, what kind of lens were you using for that photo? It's beautiful (looks like skunk cabbage?) and amazingly sharp! Still saving my sheckles for a decent macro lens... reluctantly paying for food and rent instead.
...btw, it was only raining lightly in the Wyeth area today -- until a nice storm rolled in at about 5:30 PM. Much better light in the Gorge today than yesterday!
Thanks for the comments. Tom, this was actually taken with my Sigma 70-200 2.8 @ f11. Its by far my sharpest lens in my bag (next to my Nikon50mm 1.8). I think I was about 3-4 feet away from this leaf.
I own the Sigma 105 macro, it does OK, but there is a noticeable diff between the macro and the 70-200...although being that I dont do a bunch of macro shots, I think that I make bad choices in DOF on the 105.
Wow - that's really encouraging on the lens, Rick. I'm going to be stuck with using a 40-150mm telephoto lens for macro images for the foreseable future, but had kind of written off really nice macro images (like this one), since the lens puts me about five feet away from this sort of shot. But now I'm re-motivated to try more of these!
Perfect lighting and exposure. Amazing detail, the raindrops make this shot. Having recently moved from MF/LF I'm finding macro to be just as enjoyable, if not more so, than landscape work.
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14 repliesI started up Tumalo Mtn yesterday. It was clear in Bend, but socked in and raining hard up there. I got 30 minutes up the trail, then said screw it and turned back. I shot around Sisters after that. The Balsam Root is beginning to bloom out there (although sparsly).
Today, Coming home by way of Detroit Lake/Salem, I noticed the rhodies starting to bloom and even some bear grass! Of course, the dogwoods are blooming out there too.
I hope somebody was shooting in the hour or so before sunset in PDX metro....lovely lovely skies the past two days, but generic urbana is such a poor frame....
Rick, what kind of lens were you using for that photo? It's beautiful (looks like skunk cabbage?) and amazingly sharp! Still saving my sheckles for a decent macro lens... reluctantly paying for food and rent instead.
Tom
Tom
I own the Sigma 105 macro, it does OK, but there is a noticeable diff between the macro and the 70-200...although being that I dont do a bunch of macro shots, I think that I make bad choices in DOF on the 105.
You travel miles and miles and find a scene that is awesome and you could have shot this anywhere. Nice eye and processing.
Tom