Welcome to the first weekly issue of Technique of the Week (or TOTW – doesn’t that just roll of the tongue?! I imagine you pronounce it Tottewh or something like that. Answers on a postcard.) Anyway, this week, I’m featuring Reflections on Raindrops!

This photography technique is quite easy to achieve, but has fantastic results: The trick is to find a surface that has nice, large raindrops (you can, of course, help with a mister spray bottle or similar).

Place something in the background that you would like to show tens (if not hundreds) of times, and focus carefully on the droplets. Position your camera so the subject behind the raindrops is represented well, and snap away – experiment with moving closer or further away in order to ‘frame’ the background object inside the raindrops.

Feeling it? Good. Here’s some inspiration:

A simple technique with a huge effect

Place something in the background to repeat it in the reflection.

If you want more reflections, simply add more raindrops - simple!

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