Well, many of you have read of my adventures in Arches National Park a couple of days ago as I was scouting for locations to shoot the Neowise Comet. This was after the rain that occurred about 2 hours before sunset. Once in stopped, it was awesome rainbows, some of the best rainbows I have seen. I started shooting them at Skyline Arch, and when those disappeared I got in my Jeep and started driving back towards the Balanced Rock and Turret Arch area.
My destination was Turret Arch, but as I got closer to Balanced Rock, I could see this awesome Rainbow framing it. So instead of turning towards North and South Windows and Turret Arch, I drove the few hundred feet more to get into Balanced Rocks parking lot and jump with my gear to capture the rainbow before it disappeared as is often the case with Rainbows. It's like they just want to tease you. They put on an awesome show as long as you are driving, but don't dare to pull off and stop and take out your camera, because all of a sudden the rainbows seem to get shy and then fade from view. But not this time!
In this case, it was super close to sunset. The sun was up enough to light up a soaking wet Balanced Rock (hence the saturated Red coloring) and also light up the Rainbow. There was a couple of moments in time just before the sun sank that it turned the clouds right behind Balanced Rock red/magenta. It didn't last long as once it faded below the horizon, so did the rainbow and the colors in the clouds. I desaturated the reds on the rocks by 10% because being wet they glowed so well.
Once the Rainbow disappeared and raced back over to Turret Arch and the Windows just in time for the clouds to burst with color around them. There was no rainbow but the awesome colors in the clouds didn't need a rainbow. But those photos.... well, they will be for another day.
All comments are welcome.
Jim
My destination was Turret Arch, but as I got closer to Balanced Rock, I could see this awesome Rainbow framing it. So instead of turning towards North and South Windows and Turret Arch, I drove the few hundred feet more to get into Balanced Rocks parking lot and jump with my gear to capture the rainbow before it disappeared as is often the case with Rainbows. It's like they just want to tease you. They put on an awesome show as long as you are driving, but don't dare to pull off and stop and take out your camera, because all of a sudden the rainbows seem to get shy and then fade from view. But not this time!
In this case, it was super close to sunset. The sun was up enough to light up a soaking wet Balanced Rock (hence the saturated Red coloring) and also light up the Rainbow. There was a couple of moments in time just before the sun sank that it turned the clouds right behind Balanced Rock red/magenta. It didn't last long as once it faded below the horizon, so did the rainbow and the colors in the clouds. I desaturated the reds on the rocks by 10% because being wet they glowed so well.
Once the Rainbow disappeared and raced back over to Turret Arch and the Windows just in time for the clouds to burst with color around them. There was no rainbow but the awesome colors in the clouds didn't need a rainbow. But those photos.... well, they will be for another day.
All comments are welcome.
Jim
