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Friday's sunset rainbow

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« on: August 27, 2010, 11:29:57 pm »

Well, fair play to myself lol. I had just sat down to watch the Inter Milan-Athletico Madrid game when the sun came out and 'blackened' the sky in the east,along with it came some drizzly rain, perfect for a rainbow so I downed my coffee and cake,abandoned the cup game and drove up to my favourite location.







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« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2010, 02:17:38 am »

Very intense rainbow John, love the sunset too, beautiful colors. Hope you got back for the end of the game!
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« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2010, 06:12:41 pm »

These are great John - perfect light, colour, and exposure. Getting the secondary bow at sunset is the icing on the cake  Smiley
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« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2010, 11:22:46 am »

Thanks both. The WB was set on auto instead of my usual cloudy,I don't know how this came about ,dashing up the hill and changing lenses ..the 17-40 was too wide and didn't get in on the rainbow so had to change to the 24-105, also auto wouldn't work so had to focus manually,all takes time and these rainbows can  disappear as quickly as the appear so the WB was overlooked but it's not something I usually check as I permanently use 'cloudy'. All part of the learning curve..ie. check every setting and just hope there's time.
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« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2010, 03:47:38 pm »

You mention using "Cloudy" WB. I use it also when I shoot jpeg, which is 95% of the time. I feel it gives the overall image a tinge of brown and that "old world" feel, just my opinion. When I shoot RAW on those special ocassions, of course I can shoot anything and change it in DPP. I like RAW, but storage space is the biggest problem and kind of a hassle having to convert the images. I still use Photoshop 4 (really), but I find I can do almost anything with it if I need to.
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« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2010, 04:59:38 pm »

Lovely shots John, the sunset colours are beautiful.
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