“Rain Keeps Fallin’ on My Head”

 
© 2014 Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott

I was desperate to shoot the stars while camping at Whitefish Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park a week ago, but instead got thunderstorms and torrential rain. So when the sky gives you rain…make long exposures. It was almost dark and raining hard, and so I set up underneath a big golf umbrella, used a graduated ND filter to balance the sky, and started shooting LE shots. This is one of those shots…straight out of camera. I used an LED flashlight to illuminate a bit of the foreground lilies to get this result in camera. I went to process this one but quickly realized that I really couldn’t improve on it.

Technical information Canon EOS 6D, Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 + Samyang ND Grad Filter. Processed in Adobe Lightroom 5, Alien Skin Exposure 6, and Photoshop CC

Gear Used:

Canon EOS 6D DSLR Camera (Body Only)
Rokinon 14mm Ultra Wide-Angle f/2.8 IF ED UMC Lens For Canon
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Software for Mac and Windows (Boxed Version)
Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud 1-Year Subscription
Alien Skin Exposure 6

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