Vaugh, nice take on Bridalveil!
Winter is the time to go there to avoid the crowds. The park is downright peaceful in winter.
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Vaugh, nice take on Bridalveil!
Winter is the time to go there to avoid the crowds. The park is downright peaceful in winter.
You are making me want to go!
Also, I have memories of Tuolomne Meadows and I did not make any large-format photos there. My trip to Yosemite was a one-day screamer--slept the first night in Merced and the second night in Tonapah.
Rick "but not for 'quite the hike'" Denney
Thanks -- the image is also reversed due to the print being a single-transfer carbon print. I have not made any carbon prints of Half Dome...LOL!
I also set up the 8x10 in about the same spot last February -- lots of water and I wanted an image of just the rock wall and the wall of water. I was looking at the GG at the fall and all of a sudden there was no water! I pulled my head from under the dark cloth and looked up -- only to see the fall coming straight down towards me! The wind had pushed it over in my direction. I had a second or perhaps two to pull the darkcloth over the whole camera and cover my pack -- then the water hit me.
It was like being in an instant tropical downpour, but a lot colder! Fortunately the weather was not too cold and the sun was out (except I was in shadow). I got the image I wanted (with the wind shifting the fall on top of me a couple more times, then we hiked back to the van and drove up just past the Wawona Tunnel, where we had lunch and I set all my camera gear on the rock wall in the sun to dry it all out (and myself, too). The boys were already wet as they had hiked down to the base of the fall.
Same spot as where I took the image above -- which was taken with a 'normal' lens (300mm for 8x10). The pool is where the fall usually drops into. The Fall shifted over perhaps 40 yards in order to mail me!
Unfortunately the image I got was not as sharp as I would like. My focusing and camera movements was not as refined as I hoped...I felt a bit rushed between downpours.
Of course, if it had been springtime, 1) I would not have been able to get this close and 2) a shift in the falls like this would have flattened me! I tried to get to the base of Ribbon Fall one spring. It was like walking against the rain-laden wind of a hurricane!
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If you want to go in winter and want to get close to any falls (or in general), I would recommend picking up some of those quick strap-on crampons that will go onto any boot with rubber band-like straps. It can be icy and dicey there in winter. I tried to walk to the bottom of Bridalveil one winter without them and almost broke my neck (well, more like my ass). Good insurance for mobility.
http://www.rei.com/product/838971/ka...iking-crampons
http://markkarpinski.com/web/largefo...ing_hills1.jpg
Early morning light hitting the rolling hills of Carroll County Arkansas.
Shen-Hoa PTB 6x17 Panoramic camera
Schneider 150mm f/5.6 lens
Velvia 50 RVP film
CPL + 3 stop grad filter
Really nice, as usual!
What grad filters are you using? I need to invest in some better ones, and a nicer holder and adapter setup for my LF lenses.
Thanks Bryan
I'm using a B+W MRC Circular Polarizer and for the grads I usually use Singh-Ray 3 stop hard grad filter or a Singh-Ray 3 stop reverse split grad filter. In most of my scenes I like to use two grad filters, one for the sky and then with the second grad I like to mount it upside down for the foreground so I can center the light on the subject in the middle (especially for panoramics.)
Interesting. Thanks.