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Lights, Camera, Action!
Lights, Camera, Action!
Stacked/Blended
Nestled near the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada in the Owens Valley, the Alabama Hills are a range of hills and rock formations. Now known as the Alabama Hills National Scenic Area, this area serves as a gateway to Mount Whitney and the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Mount Whitney, the tallest mountain in the contiguous US, towers nine thousand feet over the Alabama Hills, which stands 1500 feet above the Owens Valley floor.
The Alabama Hills have long been a popular filming location, from television to movie productions. The earliest known movies to be filmed here where shot in 1919. Hundreds of movies have been filmed there, especially Westerns. If you have the opportunity to visit the area, I'd recommend spending part of your afternoon visiting the Lone Pine Film History Museum to learn more.
What brings many visitors to this area are the dozens of arches, most accessed by short hikes from several of the roads in the area. The most notable arch, and therefore the most photographed, particularly by nightscape photographers, is Mobius Arch. Knowing that Mobius Arch can be very popular at night, my Milky Way photography bestie and I, along with my husband, kept driving past this iconic spot, hoping to find Boot Arch all to ourselves. It was not to be. We just missed getting to this location ahead of four young men and their two dogs. I'm not sure what they were trying to capture with their bright lights on the arch, but it was frustrating having to wait, since we also wanted to photograph at nearby Cyclops Arch. Boot Arch doesn't align to get the Milky Way through it until very early in the morning this time of year, and we weren't going to stay that long. I was able to capture the rising Milky Way with the arch before we packed up to head towards Cyclops Arch. I caught some light on one of my foreground images from some passing headlights and liked the subtle effect they added to the arch.
EXIF:
Nikon Z6ii astro-modded, Nikkor 20mm f/1.8 S
Sky: 12 ten second exposures, f/2.2, ISO 6400, stacked with Sequator
Foreground: Single 120 second exposure, f/3.2, ISO 6400
Blended in Photoshop
Lights, Camera, Action!
Lights, Camera, Action!
Stacked/Blended
Nestled near the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada in the Owens Valley, the Alabama Hills are a range of hills and rock formations. Now known as the Alabama Hills National Scenic Area, this area serves as a gateway to Mount Whitney and the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Mount Whitney, the tallest mountain in the contiguous US, towers nine thousand feet over the Alabama Hills, which stands 1500 feet above the Owens Valley floor.
The Alabama Hills have long been a popular filming location, from television to movie productions. The earliest known movies to be filmed here where shot in 1919. Hundreds of movies have been filmed there, especially Westerns. If you have the opportunity to visit the area, I'd recommend spending part of your afternoon visiting the Lone Pine Film History Museum to learn more.
What brings many visitors to this area are the dozens of arches, most accessed by short hikes from several of the roads in the area. The most notable arch, and therefore the most photographed, particularly by nightscape photographers, is Mobius Arch. Knowing that Mobius Arch can be very popular at night, my Milky Way photography bestie and I, along with my husband, kept driving past this iconic spot, hoping to find Boot Arch all to ourselves. It was not to be. We just missed getting to this location ahead of four young men and their two dogs. I'm not sure what they were trying to capture with their bright lights on the arch, but it was frustrating having to wait, since we also wanted to photograph at nearby Cyclops Arch. Boot Arch doesn't align to get the Milky Way through it until very early in the morning this time of year, and we weren't going to stay that long. I was able to capture the rising Milky Way with the arch before we packed up to head towards Cyclops Arch. I caught some light on one of my foreground images from some passing headlights and liked the subtle effect they added to the arch.
EXIF:
Nikon Z6ii astro-modded, Nikkor 20mm f/1.8 S
Sky: 12 ten second exposures, f/2.2, ISO 6400, stacked with Sequator
Foreground: Single 120 second exposure, f/3.2, ISO 6400
Blended in Photoshop