The River Farrell: Or how a river arrived at my door step

[fourth]

Shot of the rising flood waters from the front of my house during the Storm in Melbourne the other day. As usual click the image for the larger on black photograph.

[Ernest]

What i would like to see are some raindrops falling down (i mean in the air, not only at the ground surface), so i think 1/200s or even shorter would be good. I would like to see more things happening around.

[eob]

I would like to see more things happening around.

I bet the view of water arriving at his doorsteps was scary enough...

I am just not sure about the hint of color in tree branches. Perhaps it would look better with the total desaturation?

[aprilS]

What i would like to see are some raindrops falling down (i mean in the air, not only at the ground surface), so i think 1/200s or even shorter would be good. I would like to see more things happening around.

I enjoy the shallow DOF as the water rises toward my doorstep -- eek! Along with the S-curve, and what looks to be a sign pointing the way.

But trying to think through the comment, I can envision streaks of rain in the air and was wondering how that might be captured...

Metadata: Canon EOS 50D, 28-105mm @ 105mm, f4, ISO 800 and 1/100 sec (hand held?)

It looks like the ISO would have to be bumped up to at least 1600 to get a faster shutter speed, with the risk of introducing a lot of noise.

How would you tackle the problem?

[fourth]

Thanks for the comments guys.
Yeah it was hand held. It was pretty dark, I was trying to opt for as much image quality to noise ratio as I could without compromising the overall image. Tripod would have solved a lot of the problems but then the camera would have ended up being remarkably wet. I think my idea regarding the leaves at the top was that they framed the image in the same way a curtain does.

[aprilS]

As I view again, that sinuous tree trunk echoes the s-curve of the water, and the curtain of leaves of reminds of falling rain.

Subtle, yet beautifully effective.