Seems appropriate that I use this CCR song as the title for the latest blog post. It started raining on Thursday morning and has barely let up ever since. I was lucky enough to clean up and burn most of the leaves that adorned my yard (the ones in the ditch were just too wet) on Wednesday, I knew it might be the last stab to get it done. Goodness! The ditch now looks like a small river. The LaHave River is soon going to crest if it doesn't stop, I wonder if I will be able to take Trunk 10 to get to church services in the morning.
I knew such conditions might provide a great photo opportunity as I am a big fan of moving waterworks. I went to my usual best spots to get such captures and was not disappointed. I used the D80 since I knew these would be tripod-mounterd exposures (sometimes over 1 second) and I have that nifty electronic cable release, the other two Nikon bodies don't have provisions for the device.
Although it's easy enough to convey motion by stopping down to small apertures and thus yielding long shutter speeds, you can easily see if there is debris on the thin AA filter that covers the sensor. I need to clean it! Fortunately, there is a handy touch-up brush in NX2 that makes short order of the spots.
The camera and 70-300mm VR got a bit wet, nothing too serious, they are drying out as I type. I would not recommend nor endorse shooting in the rain however light it may be. The results can be well worth it, though.
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