Mike,
Last week I went on a factory junket to BK Lighting in Madera, CA (outside Fresno – they provided the lights for my bridge at illuminale). They put us up in Tenaya Lodge just outside Yosemite, where we hiked on Saturday (flew out Thursday, flew back Sunday, Friday at the factory, Saturday at Yosemite). Attached are a few images – tough metering conditions, with massive contrast (I blew many … ).
Adam
goose
so… im really envious that you got to go there, i want to climb there so bad, and i will someday
adam
We saw some climbers on a low face, and our guide had climbed both El Cap and Half Dome several times (the former in under 24 hours once — still quite a feat even if the Hubers’ wackadoodle record is 2:45:45 … ). He also told us about Honnold’s sequential solos, shuttling face to face on a wingsuit (this the guy who free-soloed the Grade V — 5.12a in places — Moonlight Buttress … ).
rakkity
Nice photos. They bring back fond memories of Yosemite and the Range of Light.
Even Ansel Adams had a hard time with the high contrast of the Sierra. It was dodge, dodge, and dodgem in the darkroom!
Why don’t you try my trick — take two overlapping pictures with different pointings, and with two different exposures, each appropriate to its pointing. Then later in the computer merge the pictures together. If the merging is done right, the overlap region will look like a cloud passed over that area, but the bright sky or rock will show its true colors, and the meadow or darker area will not be underexposed.
michael
rakkity, have we talked aboutHDR photography?
And thanks for the Connelly book, Adam’s already read it.