It's not every day you see a Double Rainbow in the skies. And you can't plan ahead by bringing out your best camera gear.
But if you have a smartphone in your pocket, in my case, an iPhone 12 Pro Max, you can create magic.
Above, video on how I got the shot.
I think I'm the only tech reporter who finishes every video with a song. What do you think? Like?
Absolutely beautiful!! Thanks for posting, Jefferson!!
Well done!
I always have trouble trying to capture double rainbows! The second rainbow I tend to find can be hard to grab with cameras, since the exposures and saturations for the second fainter rainbow can vary quite a bit from the closer foreground image settings. I suppose shooting HDR might help with that, but in the decades I've been chasing rainbows I can't remember switching to HDR in the heat of the moment. I supect that the computational photography of the iPhone 12 is doing just that, as I think about it. That second bow can be very subtle in images. The sky is darker that inside the bowe also, as in your image.
I was hoping you had some new secrets to share about capturing double rainbow images with an iPhone. 😃
As you point out, one secret of great rainbow images is a good foreground subject.
With that thought in mind, over the years, I have captured rainbows with puffins, orcas, wildebeests, zebras, highland cattle in the Scottish Highlands, whale breath, accacia trees, around my own neighborhood, and behind icebergs in the Arctic, I even have a few moonbows as well. Cumberland River Falls is famous for moonbows.
Still looking for a double as nice as yours though.
Speaking of iPhones as cameras, I just had two 20 x 24 monochromatic metal prints made of an image I shot with an iPhone X; image shot last January. I think the image quality is very good, much better than 35mm film I used to print in a darkroom in past epochs.
You've been to more cool places than me! I'd love to see a rainbow in the Scottish Highlands!
Nice blog. Just subscribed!
Rainbows occur fairly often in Scotland, or maybe it just seems like it, because I have seen several rainbows in the Cairngorm mountains.
Mountains near the sea shore offer opportunities to look in all four compass quadrants too, which is always helpful for finding rainbows, your view not being blocked by higher ground.
Yes, I think I'm going to explore some of his road trips this spring or summer
I think the Southern SIxers looks particularly interesting.
