Raindrops on a Rose: The Natural Way

I had great fun yesterday photographing a rose in my garden after an overnight shower. In the morning, the rose had wonderful, small water drops on its petals. I used my Noctilux 50mm f/0.95 with an extension tube on my tripod at f/0.95 to isolate the wet petal. 

Raindrops on a Rose © Harold Davis

My “joke” is that this lens optically renders subjects the way a Lensbaby does, but with Leica quality! It is kind of true.

In my work on water drops, I have called this kind of photography “natural” water drop imagery. The drops of water are supplied by nature, as opposed to generated in the studio, with motion stopped by a strobe.