Dew Drops

For some time I have wanted to take a close up, macro photo of dew drops.  Shouldn’t be too difficult surely.  Well, if you are me, it appears to be incredibly difficult.  I think this is mainly because of my love of hand-holding the camera rather than using my trusty tripod.  This has evolved from a desire to get close to a subject and to move round the garden as the mood takes me, using a tripod is difficult in a small garden that has plants everywhere and is about 25% pond.

Anyway, unlike most of my attempts at dew drops this has come out pretty sharp (although I have sharpened it a touch in Lightroom).  What I liked about this however, was not the dew drops, pretty though they are, but the shadows they cast on the other leaves.  The drops at the top and bottom of the picture are linked by an s-curve, and the picture retains a degree of simplicity by the fact that there is only one type of leaf and only one colour against a black background.

I decided to make the picture a little more abstract by cropping out quite a lot of the picture.

This picture was taken handheld using my EOS 400D equipped with macro lens, ISO200, 1/125secs, f/13.