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After several
attempts spread out over many years, I have finally captured this
phenomenom for all to see. I have tried to explain it to people, but
no one seems to have seen it, or to know what I was talking about.
Many years ago I was working in downtown Salt Lake City, when in the
middle of the afternoon we got the most incredible display of
prism-colored clouds I have ever seen. The thicker clouds did not
color, but around the edges there were thinner clouds that colored
very dramatically and covered a huge section of the southwest sky. The
colors in that display featured more red and orange than this, and I
was quite disappointed that I niether had a camera with me, nor any
access to an uncluttered view. On a couple of occasions, once at Capitol Reef, and
once in Bangkok, I tried photograhing prism-colored clouds, but when I
got the film back the colors were washed out despite the surrounding
sky being exposed correctly. Sooner or later the time was going to be right.
This time I was already out in nature, camera and tripod already in
hand, photographing the ever amazing New Zealand, which now offered me
one of my favorite old missed opportunities. And this time I had a
digital camera and the incredible advantage of immediate feedback.
Since the colors had washed out and disappeared in previous attempts,
I knew I needed to underexpose to capture these colors. And checking
the digital display on the back of my camera made it easy to make sure
I got what I wanted. |
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