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Everyone loves a rainbow, one of nature's most welcome sights and especially so if you're a photographer.
Not only is a rainbow beautiful and dramatic in its own right, but, as you will know, rainbows are formed when sunlight shines through raindrops. This means that there should be dramatic storm lighting around, where dark clouds and sunlight combine to give one of the best possible opportunities for photography. (So long as you can keep the rain off your lens that is!)
Anyhow, this particular rainbow formed while I was driving along a minor road above the town of Llanberis, on the shores of Llyn Padarn in Snowdonia, North Wales.
I just had time to abandon the car in the middle of the road, jump out with my camera, compose a shot, fiddle with filters (polariser plus ND grad), get the tripod in the right place, wipe the raindrops off and take a couple of shots before a car arrived behind me and I had to jump back in and drive off.
Who says landscape photography is a relaxed affair!
Filename - rainbow lake trees 01.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @45mm
Exposure - 1/5sec f16 ISO100
Location - Above Llyn Padarn, Snowdonia
This image - 800x533px JPEG
Conversion - ACR and PS-CS2
Comments - Polarising filter used to enhance rainbow.
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