Rainbow Over Death Valley

image by cgroom
02 May 2002
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lizzy: Your tweaks do the picture so much justice. So it rains in Death Valley, of all places, but not here? Waaaaaah! ;)

cgroom: If it makes you feel better, most of the rain evaporated before it hit the ground. I counted six (6) drops.

tasha: This is downright yummy...but now I'm very curious about what the original looks like.

brantley: Can I get this on a t-shirt?

cgroom: For the curious, the original is here. For the super-curious, I used the Gimp (Photoshop clone): background layer is desaturated image (B&W), inverted; next layer is original image applied as a subtraction, 20% opacity; the top layer is the original applied as a difference.

cfanjul: wowzers... the sky is sinister-ly friendly. i'm not sure how i feel about the inverted lower mountain section - either the black line is too much, or maybe it might be better if all the mountains were inverted (but perhaps it would lose the effect).

cutler: Hmmm. . . I think I find myself agreeing with Mr. Fanjul (though I may have told you differently earlier). Other than the hard black line on the ridge, everything in the image is soft like a rainbow is soft. You really get a sense of the weird, misty yet clear conditions in which rainbows appear. . . but the ridgeline interrupts it.

mwirth: I actually like the black line. It is very shocking- both aesthetically, and how it makes you suddenly aware of the fact that somebody was sitting there making this image. And it makes the image very NOT postcard-esque.

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