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Post by BuckSkin on Aug 11, 2022 21:56:15 GMT
Eastbound Cumberland Parkway Barren County - KentuckyWednesday_10-August-2022Rainbow of Colors across the Eastern Sky
I am quite disappointed in how these turned out.
The wife took them with her phone through the windshield of a vehicle in the pouring rain.
When she showed them to me on the tiny phone screen, they looked very good; I could see all the colors of the rainbow with distinct separations from color to color.
I put them on the computer and they came all to pieces.
I went ahead and posted them anyway; not because you guys had never seen a rainbow, but because this is a rainbow without a bow; it goes straight across the horizon. A flat rainbow.
At least for us, this flat rainbow is a rare sight.
Have you guys ever seen one ?
What do you call a rainbow that has no bow ?
I know nothing about cell phone photography; I don't even have one; I couldn't answer one if it were ringing; and, when I get done talking on one, I don't even know how to hang it up.
I suspect the complete lack of detail can be attributed to the wide-open Aperture; plus, I figure the phone focused on the windshield instead of the subject.
The exposure figures really are puzzling to me, especially that 1/5076 sec shutter speed.
f/1.6 and ISO 50.
If I had taken the same photos with the 7DMkII, shutter speed 1/1,000, the ISO would have been more like 16,000.
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Post by jackscrap on Aug 12, 2022 11:13:59 GMT
Very unusual indeed.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Aug 12, 2022 14:02:04 GMT
It does look flat but there is an almost imperceptible arc, right? Poston of a rainbow is related to the position of the sun. i.e. time of day. Your photos were taken at 4:22 PM when the sun was quite high vs at sunset. the-earth-story.com/post/122682281447/low-arch-rainbow-this-delightfully-shaped-rainbowThe shape and distance to a rainbow depends on the angle of the sun and the horizon; when the sun is about 40 degrees above the horizon, a rainbow in the opposite direction will flatten out, forming almost a horizontal band.
And [This] rainbow appears unusually low in the sky because it has formed early in the afternoon, rather than toward sunset.This is not my photo...from a friend. Think it was early in the day... not sure. Low and quite flat.
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