2 months before i wrote about bad weather conditions are not bad at all for the photography. Rain is considered as a bad weather condition also, indeed it can be bad for a sports game but not for photography. Rain makes the scenes more saturated and shiny, which helps us to take impressive shots. There’s nothing bad about rain except getting wet and trying to protect your camera and equipment.

In a rainy day cities can provide us beautiful scenes to capture. Especially reflection of the buildings and city lights on the wet ground is really beautiful. However this kind of pictures are taken a lot lately, there are too many examples for the city or street pictures that include reflection of buildings on the wet ground. But still you can find something creative and different, just keep trying. In the links below you can find some examples about photographing the reflections on the ground;

Boxed in - Gilad Benari

City Prisoner - Gilad Benari

Undercover Agent - Gilad Benari

Also landscapes can be stunning in the rain. high density of clouds, a dark sky and highly saturated colors are what makes the landscape pictures amazing during rain. If you want to get more saturation in your pictures you can use a polarizer filter.

After the Rain - Andrew H

After the Rain - Ersilio

Rain Is Gone - Dirk Barchmann

Norway 45 - Maciej Duczynski

Road - Dennis Sibeijn

And this is one of my pictures that taken under rain; “Gloom and Desolation”

Tomorrow I’ll write about how to protect your camera and equipment in the rain