Rare Occurrence - complete dbl rainbow

Hello all, First of all, let me apologize for the poor quality of my photomerge. I did everything wrong...no tripod...a point and shoot camera...not well thought out or planned...etc...etc...etc...However, in my defense...this is my very first complete photomerge...It the rainbow occurred just a few hours ago and I just grabbed my camera and headed out my back door. BTW...that's my trailer in the right corner...haha...but I felt that since complete double rainbows are fairly rare, it would be kind of neat to share it with everyone...Please don't flame this as I know there are tons of probs with the pic...please enjoy it for the thought and wonder of this rare occasion...
The homes on the right are about 150 yards from where I was standing...the farm on the left is about 3/4 - 1 mile away. In fact, in a few of the shots I took, the farm on the left was rainbow colored...hehe
Ken

hi ken, considering the circumstances, i think you did remarkably well, and yes technically, there are a few 'glitches ', but i love your archway montage, even the double wall on the right adds to the shot imho. It looks great and those rainbows look amazing.

Welcome to the forums

Regards

Chris

This is unique Ken. Viewfinder isn't about critique we have other places for that here at PR. This is the kind of image that fits right in here onVF. Something different or special that you want to share with friends. Nice job and welcome once again to PR.

Like OT says, you don't need to worry about that here. Was this recently? We had strange weather recently (you're not too far from me) that looked like it would produce a good rainbow but I never saw one.

BTW, welcome! And I don't have any decent rainbow shots, let alone a double!

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Originally Posted by ken1953

Hello all, First of all, let me apologize for the poor quality of my photomerge. I did everything wrong...no tripod...a point and shoot camera...not well thought out or planned...etc...etc...etc...However, in my defense...this is my very first complete photomerge...It the rainbow occurred just a few hours ago and I just grabbed my camera and headed out my back door. BTW...that's my trailer in the right corner...haha...but I felt that since complete double rainbows are fairly rare, it would be kind of neat to share it with everyone...Please don't flame this as I know there are tons of probs with the pic...please enjoy it for the thought and wonder of this rare occasion...
The homes on the right are about 150 yards from where I was standing...the farm on the left is about 3/4 - 1 mile away. In fact, in a few of the shots I took, the farm on the left was rainbow colored...hehe
Ken

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I agree with the others. This isn't Critique, and I think you did great considering the circumstances. And I'm not about to blast anyone's photomerges! The few I've tried have been abysmal failures...

Nice pics. I've only seen a double-rainbow once, and I nearly drove off the road trying to get a good look at it... :D

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Originally Posted by ken1953

Please don't flame this as I know there are tons of probs with the pic...please enjoy it for the thought and wonder of this rare occasion...

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Yeah, you're new here, aren't you? ;)

Hey, if you sit around and go "naw, I could never do a good job with that" then you'll never learn. Personally, I really like it. It has a different effect than a "proper" photomerge. Honestly, I think it's more interesting than one that you cannot tell was several pictures. Very cool subject, too.

Keep shooting!

Thanks everyone for the encouragement and the accolades....In answer to AV...this was last night 5/26/05 about 8pm...and yeah...we're not far apart...hehe.. there sure are a lot of us South Wisc./N. Ill people on this site...hehe..I had never posted anything until a few days ago anywhere...now I've posted twice...hehe...both on this site...and I'm going to venture out to other venues also because of the encouragement I've gotten here...now If I can just talk the wife into letting me upgrade my Kodak DX4330...hehe...
Again thanks everyone glad you all enjoyed it!!!
Ken

Hey Ken, I wish I would have seen this last night. :( A woman at work had some shots of a double rainbow from last night as well. She didn't get the entire thing tho. Nice work!

Great capture, even with the technical glitches!

Beautiful shots too.