Raindrops

Another rainy night in LA. The other day, I was asked to take a photo of raindrops hitting the window. As I left the mall tonight it was raining like crazy and I thought it was the perfect opportunity to shoot that photo. So I reached behind the seat and grabbed my camera and snapped this one. I only took one photo, I might go back out and try some more stuff later tonight. We'll see. Ok so I drove around for about an hour tonight between 1am and 2am when the streets were dead. I deleted my first photo because I liked these ones so much more.  Let me know what you think. Click the comment button right down there and leave some feedback. :)

camera settings

105mm

ISO400

f/3.3

1/25 sec

Drizzly Days

It's been raining all day in LA today. I love the rain. I spent my time tonight watching the Lakers game, contemplating on whether or not I should drive down to Santa Monica and try to shoot some photos of the pier in the rain. Around 11pm I decided that I didn't feel like driving all the way there in the rain. So I sat around wondering what I was going to photograph for another hour or so and decided to drive down Ventura Blvd to see what I could see. 

See? Ventura Blvd was dead. Some of the blocks didn't have electricity. I liked the way this little Mexican restaurant called Mexicali looked with the lights reflecting in the wet street. I dragged the shutter so I could get the tailights of a passing car as well. 

camera settings

50mm

ISO100

f/13

6 seconds