Lower Falls of the Yellowstone with Rainbow

[D. Robert Franz]

Photographed the Lower Falls the other day from Artists Point and wanted to get the rainbow in the mist which you only get in the morning. Rainbow lasted about 20 minutes.

Canon 40D , EF70-200mm F2.8L @ 135mm, ISO 100, 1/80 @ F11, polarlizing fillter

[Noel Carboni]

Just beautiful!

-Noel

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey D. Robert,
Prooof that you can take a waterfall with the sun out. Whites handled extremely well and composed beautifully also.

[Gus Cobos]

Fantastic Composition and capture. WOW...beautifull and majestic...congrats...:cool:

[Robert Amoruso]

I like it a lot too. Composition works well with the river exiting at the lower left and the falls starting close to the top. My eye starts at either end and flows through the image. I tried a Local Contrast Enhancement using USM on a BG copy at 30/60/0 reduced the opacity to around 50% and then added a curves adjustment using a mild reverse s-curve. I liked the affect on the falls and trees & rocks details due to the LCE and the reverse s-curve evened out the tones to the whole image.

[Julie Kenward]

Fantastic! I wish I had seen the rainbow the day I was there. This is a superb image!