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Refraction and Reflection
Refraction and Reflection
giantmike


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Challenge: The Moon II (Expert Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Location: Madison, WI
Date: Aug 30, 2012
Date Uploaded: Sep 1, 2012

 I purposefully set out on this with the desire to do some pretty major expert editing (for me). This is far and above more than anything I have ever done, which was a great learning experience, but a HUGE time sink.

I got this idea aft a really bright rainbow appeared one night when I looked out the back window to see the rain coming down while the sun shined bright. I did get some photo of the rainbow, but didn't end up using them because I couldn't find a way to reall separate it for the ugly clouds.

It was very challenging for me to do so many pieces of this edit. Making clouds from scratch look real. Making the rainbow look real. Making the reflections look real. Luckily I didn't have to worry too much about lighti directions, as I cannot image how I would do that.

Used only two images for this. One of the landscape and one of the moon.

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09/09/2012 09:56:20 PM
very cool.
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 09/05/2012 09:20:19 PM
Great picture except for two technicalities. 1. A rainbow is a trick of the light and has no physical properties. The water drops that cause the refraction of light to show up as a rainbow can come down and touch the ground, so a rainbow can look like it is touching the ground but only around waterfalls and similar water features that produce a mist similar to rain. Rainbows seen across a sky are so high up in the air that they may appear to touch the horizon but will fall short. Also, the rainbow will move as the observer's eyes move, so you can never get to the rainbow. Had you stopped the rainbow affect at the tree line this would be correct technically. 2. to get a capture with the moon this full in the sky it would have to have been taken at late evening or night when the remaining strength of light would be too soft to produce a rainbow at all. All that being said...Great idea, nice shot(s). 7
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 09/03/2012 12:43:58 AM
Quite apart from the moon, did you enhance the color or brightness inside the rainbow? If not, then you caught the same effect I've had in my rainbow shots.
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