Jon Buffington
Well-Known Member
Anytime I am at a new place, I am mentally taking notes of places to return for potential sunset/sunrise that look fruitful compositionally speaking. I had stopped at this spot earlier in the day with my wife but due to wearing ourselves out, she elected to stay at the campground. The spot worked ok, but not as well as I had hoped. The clouds in the far distance hid the mountains preventing the composition I wanted (a compression effect with my 100-300 highlighting the valley trees with the distant peaks...the peaks being hid by cloud cover). However, the light more than made up for it. In fact, the sky put on what heck of a show!
As I was waiting for the light to change and trying out differing perspectives and comps, I began to move down the hill a bit and then looked up and saw a fantastic rainbow spanning Kings Canyon in the fading light. When the rainbow finally passed, the clouds really created even more intense color and drama illuminating the sky and canyon walls in a deep purple hue. Here are 2, neither are completely finished and I will revisit these and others but I figured I would share with you all.
As I was waiting for the light to change and trying out differing perspectives and comps, I began to move down the hill a bit and then looked up and saw a fantastic rainbow spanning Kings Canyon in the fading light. When the rainbow finally passed, the clouds really created even more intense color and drama illuminating the sky and canyon walls in a deep purple hue. Here are 2, neither are completely finished and I will revisit these and others but I figured I would share with you all.
