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rainbows in your hand
rainbows in your hand
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Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Tamron SP AF 24-135mm f/3.5-5.6 AD Aspherical IF for Canon
Location: Lake Macdonald, Glacier National Park, MT
Date: Jul 7, 2005
Aperture: 9.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/100 sec.
Galleries: Snapshot, Nature
Date Uploaded: Jan 27, 2006

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Comments: 4
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 focal length 64.0mm
2:04 pm

In Glacier National Park, at Lake Macdonald, you can hold rainbows in your hand.

The beach was covered with rocks of every color of the rainbow--bold, vivid colors that jump right out at you. No light tinting here; no, the beach could as well have been made out of paint chips. Amazingly pure colors everywhere, pebbles almost as small as sand to larger than the ones in this picture.

It was really amazing

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 02/09/2006 04:39:21 PM
Originally posted by Germaine:
Amazing colors. Before I read your notes, I thought you had done some PS-ing to get the muted tones.


Hey, thanks. Actually, I have to admit (and I didn't mean to mislead in the Photographer's Comments section) that I did use PS for the toning. The Draganizer action was useful with this as well as dodge & burn. The lighting in the original exposure was much harsher than this, and the colors more washed out. But then, this version is a lot closer to what I saw at the time than the photo was before.

I see what you're saying about the finger being cut off... and I agree, it adds some visual tension that doesn't help this photo compositionally. Unfortunately, the finger was cut off in the original. Mostly I just wanted this to be a snapshot of the rocks that were there.

Thank you for your detailed comment... I really do appreciate it.
 02/09/2006 09:08:49 AM
Amazing colors. Before I read your notes, I thought you had done some PS-ing to get the muted tones.

I really like how you use the depth of field to have the hand suspended in space. My only quibble is that I wish you hadn't cut off the end of the middle finger. I'd have liked to have seen the whole hand floating on the background, but that's just me. The water drip adds a nice touch.
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 01/28/2006 04:26:36 PM
Oooo oo I hope you got a picture of hte whole beach?
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 01/27/2006 06:42:44 AM
i like the way you think and see damnon.
sounds amazing, your trip.
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