Experiment with the AD360 and stroboscopic mode in simulated rain

I'm fascinated by photos in rain, and was trying a few things in this shot. I used a watering can and poured rain around a small Cartman figurine.

1) Ad360 with standard reflector camera right gelled orange. Set at 1/128 power at stroboscopic 99 burst at 10hz (I understand this to mean that the strobe fires 99 times at 10 burst per second). I was trying to multiply the amount of simulated rain drops caught in the picture hence the 99 bursts. (maybe I should try shooting the strobe from behind next time).

2) I wanted a long shutter speed to a) capture the street lamp and b) to have enough time to capture all the 99 strobe bursts. So I settled at 13 second exposure f18 ISO800.

If i lowered my aperture I got nice streaky rain (which i thought would be nicer, but it was faint), but it also had more of a background blur which didn't give me the star burst from the street lamp that I wanted. This is what I settled on.

Any ideas would be great, once i'm happy with it, I will try this on a less stationary subject, like a model (in which case, I imagine having to use the strobe from behind and light the model with a separate one time flash).

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