fantastic!

Posted by Poochivenkat on 2007 May 28 18:20:16 +0000

What a super shot.

Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2007 May 29 02:14:44 +0000

Woa! what a shot ! Certainly proves that one need to have brains and not equipement (first).

Posted by Ashwanth on 2007 May 29 02:39:34 +0000

Brilliant image man.

Posted by Siddhartha Ganesh on 2007 May 29 03:17:46 +0000

Interesting picture with a fitting caption. It is certainly not a "reflection of the Shindawane Station"; rather it is a view of Shindawane Station through a convex lens shaped from a water drop (it would have been a "reflection" if it was a mirror). Since the focal length of this lens is very small, it is the reason why you see an inverted image with a distortion at the edges of the lens of the objects behind it.

Posted by M S M Saifullah on 2007 May 29 04:26:36 +0000

Superb Pic..really impressed.

Posted by Thakur Nishant Pundir on 2007 May 29 04:39:24 +0000

Creative photography at its best !!

Posted by Manohar Natarajan on 2007 May 29 05:46:04 +0000

Many Thanks to Sachin Buddhisagar who taught me how to use the camera settings to get this kind of image, and of course, Lady Luck provided the droplet ;)

Posted by S Ashwin on 2007 May 29 06:41:48 +0000

Saifullah, it is indeed a reflection. What is seen in the droplet is the part of the station behind me, it is confirmed by the sun shade visible in the droplet, consistent with what we saw @ the station

Posted by S Ashwin on 2007 May 29 06:47:28 +0000

Lovely picture could you please share the EXIF data of the photo so that we could learn from the pro's who took this shot !!!!!!!

Wonderful shot loved it thank you so much for the upload

Posted by Lakshman Thodla on 2007 May 29 09:11:21 +0000

It doesn't look like station building to me. It looks like a tree in the background

Posted by Ramesh on 2007 May 29 09:32:03 +0000

Ashwin, your reasoning is incorrect. You said: "reflection of the Shindawane Station"... "zoom in to the droplet, the image is inverted". Here you assume that the droplet acts as a convex mirror which is leading to the reflection of the object behind. But the image formed by a convex surface for an object beyond its focal length is *never* inverted. It is always upright.

Since the droplet can't be a concave surface, at least not in this case, we are now left the droplet being a convex lens. In this case, an object beyond the focal length would appear inverted as well as small. This is what you see. In conclusion what you are seeing is an image of the tree with the shadow right behind the tap. Of course, the image is extremely small and distorted at the ends, clearly suggesting the effect of extremely small focal lengths which you would find only in droplets of this size.

Posted by M S M Saifullah on 2007 May 29 10:10:12 +0000

Here is the EXIF information,

Shooting Mode: Manual
Shutter Speed: 1/800
Aperture Value: 3.5
ISO Speed: 80
Focal Length: 9.8 mm
White Balance: Auto

Posted by S Ashwin on 2007 May 29 10:17:10 +0000

Nice creative shot. Next time try with a smaller aperture (higher f number) so that the background is a little more blurred (depth of field). The subject in foreground will stand out crisply giving a dramatic effect.

Posted by Gaurav Varshney on 2007 May 29 10:30:22 +0000

Correction - a large aperture (smaller f number) will ensure a shallower DOF.

Posted by Gaurav Varshney on 2007 May 29 10:44:12 +0000

Amazing shot. A very different subject to what is found regularly on the gallery. Kudos.

Posted by Vrijilesh Rai on 2007 May 29 12:00:14 +0000