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Here be Gold!


Here be Gold!
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Copyright: Doug Whincup (dougsphotos) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 78 W: 5 N: 176] (777)
Genre: Landscapes
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2003-09
Categories: Sky
Exposure: f/4.9, 1/250 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-10-10 4:18
Viewed: 1837
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Another oldie from my Tasmania tour a few years back.

I have something of a fascination with rainbows and whilst exploring the Henty sand dunes this fine example caught my eye.

I tried to keep the composition simple with the lines of the rainbow contrasting with the lines of the dunes/trees.

Quality-wise this is not fantastic as it was taken on my old point and shoot. Does anyone have any tips on reducing noise in photoshop?

PP was just resize, minor sharpening and level tweaks and a border. Exposure is slightly under to accentuate the rainbow colours.

RAINBOW - Wikipedia summary:

A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a nearly continuous spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. It takes the form of a multicoloured arc, with red on the outside and violet on the inside. A double rainbow includes a second, fainter, arc with colors in the opposite order.

Even though a rainbow spans a continuous spectrum of colours, traditionally the full sequence of colours is most commonly cited as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. It is commonly thought that indigo was included due to the different religious connotations of the numbers six and seven at the time of Isaac Newton's work on light, despite its lack of scientific significance and the poor ability of humans to distinguish colours in the blue portion of the visual spectrum.

Thanks for looking. Doug
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  • taba Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 481 W: 128 N: 304] (1703)
  • [2006-10-10 8:54]

Hi Doug
I liked too much the composition you choose to frame the shot.
great colours and moment.
well done.
Taba

Have you found the gold? Nice photo.

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