Rainy day

[Geomiljo]

I was out walking in the woods during rainfall recently. Half way through a bush with lots of water droplets on the leafs - rainfall had just stopped - I tried some close-ups.  The bush was moving about in the wind, so holding the camera with on hand I used the other to try and keep the branch as steady as possible. And preventing the water droplets to fall off. My initial ambition was to try and get all the droplets on the leaf in focus, that didn´t work out, this is what I got instead. A lot more "abstract" than I had intended, but there is something about it that I like, maybe.

60/2.8G at f 4. Colors made a little "cooler" than in the original file.

/Johan

[elsa hoffmann]

soft and smooth. Things seldom work out the way I intend on an outing

[pluton]

If I had come home with this, I would try to increase the mid tone contrast, especially on the water, and I'd experiment with cropping away a portion of the right side. 

[Anirban Halder]

Camera in one hand never works for me, especially for such close-up shots.
A very large print of this shot will look nice. However I would have preferred little bit of water droplet in focus, which I understand was your original intention as well.