This was not intended as a stock photo. I'm doing a photojournalism class and we had to find events over the weekend and shoot them. "We need photos not excuses" is emphasised, and weather/light is definitely not an excuse.
So I found out that there was a charity abseil from a huge landmark crane and set off, but of course, there was a heavy drizzle. The tutor had told us that 800 ISO was perfectly standard in Scotland for pjs to use most of the year, and I'm not scared of using high ISO anyway. So as I needed to freeze movement from the abseiling, I set the ISO at 800, and this shot was 1/800 with 800 iso.
Is this what rain looks like at that speed? I doubt I've ever photographed rain at 1/800 before!
This is a full size crop, with only a bit of fill and clarity added in post, no other processing:
http://www.lizworld.com/ExhibitB.jpgTIA