Challenging weather conditions – different pictures
Snowfall, those beautiful “Disney flakes” you see in nature photos, but how often do you see a rain?
Water rain is probably the rarest natural phenomenon, from which you see photos of birds and animals and probably also the most ungrateful weather for photographers to photograph. At the end of summer, there were whooper swans in the nearby lake and I decided to go out in the warm summer rain to try photographing them.
It was easy to protect the camera in the car with MrJan Gear’s raincover / showercap, but operating the camera in the field so that it stays dry is not quite so simple.
What difficulties does shooting in the rain bring and what joy?
Camera to the shore for the DIY Kelkka- ground pod
One of the most important things is that the camera is on a tripod in the rain, so that the rain cover covers the camera continuously and does not accidentally let the rain in.
The rain cover must also be large enough in dimensions to form a small “vizor” over the camera’s head, so that the camera can be operated without getting the back of the camera wet.
Challenges also arise from the fact that Canon’s viewfinder sensor is very sensitive and when shooting from the screen, the screen sometimes turned off because the rain cover came too close to the face sensor in the viewfinder and the camera transferred the image to the viewfinder.
I quickly got used to the “feature” and filming went well.
Try different shutter speeds
As with snowfall, try different shutter speeds. Depending on the amount of rain and the size of the drop, a longer shutter speed makes the rain a line, a shorter one a drop. Again, too long a shutter speed can eliminate the rain completely.
Rain can be seen better against a dark background, so you can also photograph it against such a background.
Below are a few illustrative examples.
Wet hands
The rain gets the photographer’s hands wet and wet hands cannot be avoided. Therefore, the camera also gets a little wet when operating the camera with damp or even completely wet hands.
Shake hands before touching the camera, drying on your own clothes hardly helps.
Dry the equipment
Remember to put all the equipment to dry after shooting because of hidden moisture.
You can find more about the raincovers I use in the blog below or directly on MrJan Gear’s website