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Tonight’s Sky, With The Help Of My Computer
June 15, 2007 by ybonesy
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These look like paintings to me. So what was your process with them? I assume the rainbow was real, right out your back yard. And was the sky really that vibrant?
Your photos remind me that I haven’t seen a rainbow in quite a while. It doesn’t matter what age I am, rainbows always seem kind of magical to me. I know it’s light refraction and color spectrum – but sometimes none of that matters. I see them as good omens. A sign of hope. I guess that’s one of my rituals.
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I dialed up the saturation and played with the range on each of the mid-tones, highlights and lowlights. It was dusk, and to me the sky was closer, in terms of its vibrancy, to the doctored photos than to the others. But a camera probably doesn’t lie as much as one’s memory does.
This was a particularly brilliant rainbow. The clouds formed, as they often do in the afternoon and evening, and the rain didn’t hit the ground, as is often the case on days like yesterday. And then the rainbow appeared, huge like someone had swiped a paintbrush across the sky.
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The rain didn’t hit the ground…I like that line. It rained lightly here last night around midnight. Rainbows remind to be thankful for rain. I love walking in rain. But it can be a graceful dance if you are carrying any kind of electronics, like a camera.
I know what you mean about the memory of a sunset or sky being more vibrant than the photograph. Sometimes I think the camera lens just doesn’t capture it the way our eyes are able to. And other times, I think the memory is colored with everything else going on inside it.
Good observation, that the doctoring in the larger photographs seems closer for you to the real sky than the actual photographs you took in the strips of three. I find my eyes going back and forth and comparing them.
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the Land of Enchantment…
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I had one thought when I saw these. This must be the reason people move to the desert.
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Yes, the sky is a big draw, for sure. (And I would say the “dry heat,” but I’ve stopped saying that ever since I saw a magnet with a drawing of a woman so puckered up she looked like a skeleton with skin. The tagline read something like, “It’s hot in Arizona…but it’s a dry heat!”)
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I’ve seen that magnet. That must be the reason why I live in wet and humid Minnesota. 8)
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If I lived in wet and humid Minnesota, I’d look like I was still 22 years old, what with my oily skin. Oh well. Next life.
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