I've done it a few times...always under an umbrella. :-)

This one was more of a mist than a rainfall:

I had a hole poked through a walmart bag. I have a weather sealed camera that I have taken pictures with in the rain, but I can find any pictures I had taken with it in the rain. That's odd cause I know I have somewhere.
I dropped the camera in the lake when getting in the boat, I know it didnt do anything to the camera but it did give me a scare .

Joe

Joe, I'll never forget an experience at Lake George. My dad, who was completely familiar with both cameras and boats, had one foot on a dock and one foot on a boat, and several cameras around his neck. The boat moved away, and he and the cameras ended up in the lake. He was fine, of course, but the cameras were not.

I was only ten at the time, so I don't know what cameras they were. I'm sure they were good ones, though.

Well my older Olympus wasn't in the rain but a whole lot of hot coffee with milk, no sugar. Opened it up as much as I dared dried with a hair dryer and left it overnight to dry out further. The only failure I had was the cable to transfer to a PC never worked again. Bought a card reader.
I only use the camera in the morning for the coffee smell.

I like the pictures you have posted! I'm gonna have to try it next time..

Thats funny Spook.

Syd, not all cameras are weather sealed, make sure you take precautions when you take the camera into a wet enviroment.

Joe

Sometimes the gray's don't come out as nice as if taken in morning/afternoon sun....but if there's a storm they can look tumultious (with & without sun)...I have taken pics in the rain but didn't quite capture what I was thinking it would...I got this as a result of a light rain...
Gave this some gamma
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Same shooting session...Used filters in Irfanview...

Hi Juanital,

I noticed your comment "gave this some gamma" and I hope you won't be upset that I took the liberty to make further adjustments to your image, it's a nice photo and it needs more of that "gamma" as you called it. I like the photo very much -- I took it into photoshop and used the Levels sdjustment to normalize the tone distribution. Then I used Curves to just tweek the low end a smidge down.


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Often what our camera captures is just the starting point to an exciting image, but we have to see the potential that's there to be opened up. The photo below on the left came from my camera "as is." In the photo on the right the tree is aflame -- used a little "gamma."

Joe


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Nice PS work Joe.

Do you know about image pop?
Unsharp mask
30 60 10

This really makes many images pop, it does not sharpen. It won't work if the image has blown whites or highlights.

Sierra :-)

Those rain drops in the puddle are beautiful!...

Hi Sierra,

I've never heard it called image pop -- but I've seen the unsharp mask radius being used to produce an overall contrast increase. The technique can produce halos around objects against a light background so be careful.

You can get better control over the effect by increasing both the amount and the radius even further and then tweaking the final result by going to the Edit menu and fading the unsharp mask.

Joe

Thanks Sydney...
Joe, I don't mind at all that you did that! I thought something else could be done with it...and think you've done a nice job...
Sierra, not long ago I upgraded irfanview and they had the unsharp mask (adjustable) as well as other new filters, pretty cool stuff...

juanital

Thanks Joe, can't say I have ever seen halos when using this......I have seen them when I have resized and or over sharpened though. Something to keep in mind and watch for.

Juanital, keep going you have a very artistic eye. Ya all these programs are fun to play with and learn what they can do. Sometimes you even get a few surprises.

Sierra

Juanital, I love that photo!