Rain on Glass Manor House
Rain on glass is a slight obsession of mine -- this is one of my best images of it, at least in my opinion.
Rain on glass is a slight obsession of mine -- this is one of my best images of it, at least in my opinion.
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Location
This was taken from my living room window -- I live a few floors up in North London. The area is having a lot of redevelopment so we've been living with construction cranes for a few years. I actually love the shape of them, and what they do to the landscape.Time
For reasons you'll see below (I was home with a broken leg and I couldn't walk) the days felt very long and homogeneous, but I think I took this mid-afternoon. It probably helped with the pressing gloom!Lighting
The whites and shadowd were the thing in this picture. I really wanted to show the structure of the cranes, and the gloom of the day without losing anything. Even now, I'm not sure this is the best version (I've got another five on my hard disk) but people here seem to like it...Equipment
I used my X-T20, with an Aperture of f/22, ISO 200 and Shutter 10/300. I also put it on a tripod, because I had a broken leg and couldn't stand to hold my camera properly!Inspiration
A few months ago I had two things -- a great camera and a broken leg. It was about two days after I'd opened and set up my Fujifilm X-T20. I'd done a couple of dummy runs to tune work out the colour and light settings, but then I fell down two flights of stairs and basically couldn't walk for three weeks. I was unbelievably frustrated, but spent the whole time messing around with still life photos, and taking photos out of my window while trying not to get all Rear Window (experiments with my new zoom lens were out).Editing
I was still learning to process Raw, so I did a bit of work on this with RawTherapee, but it didn't need a huge amount of work, in all honesty.In my camera bag
I've got any amount of stuff for my film cameras and I did a lot of courses in the 90s but I've had a very random attitude to digital photography, so at the moment, I'm concentrating on the basics with my X-T20. I tend to go out with just the camera most of the time, with maybe my lightweight tripod in case I want to mess around with long exposures.Feedback
I don't think it's hugely complex -- focus on the rain and the glass not the background, and take a lot of pictures, since rain moves!
