My husband woke me up this morning to show me the rainbow, he thought I would want some pic's. I don't think the settings were right (don't even remember what they were - I tried a couple things). There is even a faint double rainbow.
How would you process this to get the most out of the rainbow, it's colors, and improve that ugly sky color. Seems to me that all the processing options there was always a trade-off of something you had to give up.
Looks like you have the faint beginnings of a double rainbow. This is how rainbows look when I take them in our area. Maybe some hdr treatment would help.
This is the only one I have for this year and the image is solarized which reversed the colors. The sky though came out really interesting.
I just got this rainbow shot a couple of days ago. I took a zillion shots and adjusted the settings as I took them because I really couldn't tell if they were working at the time. Afterwards I used a "raw boost" setting Aperture has which pumped up the colours and sky a bit. I think I moved the saturation button up a tiny bit too. Rainbows are tricky!!
I love taking shots of rainbows, but they are very tricky to get right. you're photographing scattered light, so there's nothing definite to focus on. Best thing to do is play with the saturation of the image's colors, trying to get the rainbow to pop. If you can adjust individual channels, give that a try as well. Best of luck! Show us your results!
add an unsharp mask, increase saturation to taste and go over the whole image with a burn tool (you can go over the trees with a dodge tool if you like too :D) thats one way of bringing out the colours there are many more. it comes out like this
@asrai Thank you! I never knew about the unsharp mask (saw it but never tried it) and didn't know what the burn tool was for. I will play with another rainbow image and post.
@pschtyckque Those are so beautiful, I thought rainbows would be easy but as you said it is hard to focus - my auto focus didn't work for it. I think I will for sure need to saturate the colors.
@kwind Now I'm going to show my ignorance (just got my DSLR in May) I am using the one that came with the camera 18 - 55mm. I don't think it is a wide angle. Your shot is gorgeous!
@dmortega Someone else suggested HDR on a separate page - I will ahve to look into that as well.
@myhrhelper I took this with my point-and-shoot and added a 'boost' in picasa which really brought out the colours and the beginnings of a double-rainbow which I hadn't spotted before. I think I may have increased both shadows and brightness but the boost normally does that so it might not have been necessary. Well done on catching the rainbow at all - and top marks to hubby!
@myhrhelper one to use if you have photoshop is the sponge tool saturated/desaturate, this way you can adjust the saturation of the rainbow and not the rest of the image that seems to be fine.
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This is the only one I have for this year and the image is solarized which reversed the colors. The sky though came out really interesting.
@pschtyckque Those are so beautiful, I thought rainbows would be easy but as you said it is hard to focus - my auto focus didn't work for it. I think I will for sure need to saturate the colors.
@kwind Now I'm going to show my ignorance (just got my DSLR in May) I am using the one that came with the camera 18 - 55mm. I don't think it is a wide angle. Your shot is gorgeous!
@dmortega Someone else suggested HDR on a separate page - I will ahve to look into that as well.
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