ISO 100, 50 mm, f/1.8, 1/200
I always tell people photography has ruined my preferences for weather. I don't like sunny days because the lighting is too hard to take portraits, I prefer cloudier days because the lighting is softer, and I love rainy days because they're so dynamic.
I always seem to get a lot of pictures of rain on windows. I love the look of the little droplets seemingly suspended in midair and I really like how the rain adds a sort of "foggy" look to a lot of the pictures, making everything hazy and dulling the colors.
ISO 125, 50 mm, f/1.8, 1/50
Even if the colors are dull, though, they can look amazing when blurred in the background or seen through the distortion of a raindrop.
Rain doesn't just add a dynamic background to everything, with puddles splashing or raindrops caught in midair as they fall through the picture; rain makes the light change just as rapidly. The brief moments when the rain stops are amazing, as the sun comes out just a bit and lightens the world again, though the rain is still on the windows, the trees, and the ground.
ISO 100, 50 mm, f/1.8, 1/50
Eventually, though, the rain comes back and everything goes dark again. The sun disappears behind the clouds once more and that beautiful moment when everything was bright is gone.
ISO 100, 50 mm, f/1.8, 1/125
That's all for today,
Alec