The photographer is looking for thoughtful feedback on the image as a whole, especially around the areas noted below.
Feedback Focus: Artistic / Expressive
About This Image
On our second trip to Yellowstone we stayed in the Madison Campground. I’ve been blessed with a wife who doesn’t mind living in a tent but one thing we don’t like to do is spend a lot of time cooking. Boiled water and oatmeal with some coffee in the morning is about the most we want to do. On this particular evening we were returning from dinner in West Yellowstone when we got into a small cloudburst over the Madison River and this intense double rainbow. I always keep my scenic rig in the back seat so all I have to do if something cool shows up is get out of the car, set up the tripod and have at it. The show only lasted a few minutes but it was a nice ending to the day. I tried in vain to find the pot(s) of gold at the end of the rainbows but no luck .>=))>
Feedback Requested
I’ve toyed with cropping a bit from the right side to get rid of the tree on the edge of the frame but decided to leave it. Your thoughts?
Technical Details
Sony A700
Minolta 24-85 @ 26mm, CPL
ISO 200, 1/160 @ f11
Beautiful shot Bill. Those rainbows are always worth stopping for, and you got yourself a good one here. I don’t find the tree on the right edge a problem, so no cropping IMO. A wider shot showing more of the rainbow over the landscape would’ve been nice here, but this works very well.
Bill, the Yellowstone area is a great one for local showers and rainbows. This looks great. I like how the double bow arches up as a counterpoint to the steep canyon walls. That tree is minor so you could burn it in or clone it out. Seeing the top of the ridge on that side works well. You could also crop from the bottom right if you want to maintain aspect ratio, that would lose a few of the sticks at the bottom.
As Mark said, showing the top of the ridge is much more important than the minor distraction of the tree.
This photo clearly and beautifully illustrates the phenomenon of the light being brighter on the inside of the rainbow and duller on the outside. I have often wondered about that, and now I will have to research why that should be so.
Pieter, the optics of rainbows are well know. The darker area outside the inner bow is called Alexander’s dark band. Here’s one link that gives tons of details about rainbows and some of the other optical phenomena that can be seen in the atmosphere. https://rainbowspec.observer/
Quite lovely Bill. I really like how vivid the rainbow is, and such nice scenery to support it.
I really didn’t pay attention to it until I read your question, so I guess no worries on my end. In fact, the tree that jumped out as me as a bit forlorn is the guy peeking in on the left edge.
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