Navajo Arc + repost

Super detail in the clouds Doug, you can clearly see the rain sheeting down. Love the wide view and great job on the stitching.

Gary.

Love the waterfall-like clouds inside the rainbow. It seems that the photo is compressed horizontally when you stitch frames together. Choosing a different projection mode might help.

The rainbow does seem a bit squeezed, but what a great moment captured and your comp is outstanding.

Very cool Doug! What an awesome scene to witness. Everything looks good to me. My only nit would be to crop up from the bottom since there is not much going on there and make it an ultra-pano.

As Morris mentioned, the rainbow appears somewhat "squeezed". I don't know if that can be corrected or not - hope so. Other than that, this is terrific - great detail and scenery.

I have tried the "perspective layout" in the Photomerge Panorama, and while the rainbow is not compressed, the horizon ends up being severely curved. This one was done with the auto layout I will keep trying other layout modes in the photomerge. Guess I just need a "pixel stretcher" for this

Very cool photo Doug. The distortion takes away from this awesome image a bit though.

I'm a photoshop nut so I might have a quick and simple fix for this if you are interested. All you need to do is duplicate the layer, then do a transform. Compress your rainbow to a more realistic shape, ignoring what it does to the rest of the image. Take the layer with the fixed rainbow and drop the opacity a little bit so you can see the image with the undistorted rocks. Line the two layers up to something that looks good to you, then do a layer mask on the rainbow layer. Mask out the bottom of the rainbow layer until you see the rocks from the main layer. Make sure you remove the opacity from the rainbow layer before flattening. Piece of cake. ;] You'll lose some height on the image, but that's trivial for a pano shot like this.

Again...awesome photo.

Nicholas,
Thanks for the technique. Here is a low-rez, quick attempt using the 1200pixel image to see how it works. Danke.

Right on man! Just a tiny bit more and I think you'll have it. Bitte!

I was waiting to see if you would correct that 'bow before commenting, and am I glad I did.
This is spectacular event you captured, Doug!
As always, I believe the skies (only) could use a bump in contrast (or Image Polish) to make that rainbow 'pop'.
That's really a minor nit, though. Consider yourself blessed my friend, and give it another friendly stretch as Nic suggested.

An incredible scene and moment Doug. I would make the adjustments suggested above and hang this up on your wall.

You got really good conditions and lighting here. The only nit from me was the already mentioned compressed rainbow.

Rainbow looks a little squished but otherwise, very cool. My kind of sky right there.

That's a once-in-a-lifetime even, Doug. Looks like you're viewing the rainbow in an oblique manner. Those cloud textures are really good.

Doug,

What a glorious moment on nature! Thanks to Nicolaus for the great tip - your repost looks much better distortion-wise, although I think you could go just a little further. And this image is certainly worth the effort - what a special moment you've captured for all eternity.

Lon

Here is a version with as close to a semi-circular rainbow I could get, and some added contrast to the skies. Again, thanks to Nicholas and others for your suggestions.

Looks great Doug. Definitely an image to cherish. I hope you make some awesome sales from this photo, it's a spectacular and unique catch. As a pano stitch you should be able to print this out MASSIVE.

Nicely done on the re-work, Doug. I have to admit it took me a second to visualize what Nicolaus was suggesting, so more power to you for figuring it out. The "squished" version definitely looked weird and was distracting from an otherwise great image. I do think the tiny bit off the bottom (as per John Mumaw) helps also. Excellent!

Tony, if I can go into physics teacher lecture mode (my day job; forgive me) it's not possible to view a rainbow obliquely. Each rainbow is unique to a given viewpoint, constructed out the interaction between the sun's rays and raindrops. The rays refract and reflect to form a cone; each person or camera sees part of a circle traced out by that cone.

I like how the rainbow gives this image some scale. Works well as a small pan. Very nice Doug.