roses in a row

I recommend viewing this one large to see the detail.

Commenter Marissa asked yesterday how to capture shots like this. It’s a great question that I never thought to write about, and should have.

It took me a long time to get a clear understanding of how the reflections work, and even longer to shoot them properly. Of course, once I learned about it, the first thing I wanted was a higher-megapixel camera. The D70 just doesn’t quite get large enough images for print, though they work fairly well on the web.

So, I will put a post together about how I shoot the droplets and what I look for, how I set the camera, and compose the shots. But not tonight. Too much going on in the political area for me to focus on writing a post like that.