The monsoon has just onset over the Indian Peninsula. The monsoon presents some of the fabulous scenes in coastal Karnataka and Malnad regions. The western ghats is painted with beauty and river bodies are brimming. The enthusiastically plunging waterfalls are testimony to the active monsoon season in the Western Ghats. With 3rd wave of COVID looming over the country, we may not see authorities lifting the restrictions sooner. Hence beholding those majestic scenes is still far-fetched dream. Keeping aside the distant/elusive dreams, there are other things which monsoon presents and people fail to see its beauty. They are none other than rain-shafts. These rain-shafts are popular among weather/nature enthusiasts however are not matter of excitement to many. The present impeccable beauty. The rain-shafts are conspicuous especially when the sky contains wide contrast i.e. cloud cover with rain over isolated region and the rest under light. Apart from this situation, we do they see them while storm is approaching the region away from your position provided the contrast is visible. Here is my post on rain-shaft captured in apartment terrace. If the restrictions ease, hope to find them at varied locations this monsoon season. With moisture laden monsoon clouds surging the mainland, the coastal Karnataka would have plenty of such rain-shafts. Perhaps few lucky moments would enable to capture their drama & beauty.
Photographing rain shaft is not a difficult task at all. The light setup is already done by mother nature. One needs to click the scenes and adjust some contrast during post processing :-D. One more aspect to notice is that the camera should be underexposed. If not, the entire frame would be blown up due to over-exposure since the camera evaluates light based on entire region. I have not experimented with spot metering much on rain-shaft. Let me conduct few experiments and come up with optimal settings.
Note the serial number in blog title. Hope to grab more such events in future :-)
Enjoy more such rain-shafts here
Here in south Florida the wet season has begun. It is not unusual to see rain shafts as storms move in from the ocean or over the Everglades. I do not like having them pop up suddenly while walking out in the open, a half hour walk away from shelter.
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ReplyDeleteGreetings and Salutations! Great rain shaft photographs.
ReplyDeleteGood job on capturing the rain shaft images. I love the tips you give.
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ReplyDeleteAmazing nature shots ~ Xo
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Beautiful.
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