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A Night Hike up the Half Dome Cables

Timelapse video: vimeo.com/181706906.

 

Kurt Lawson and I backpacked 110 lbs of gear to Mt. Watkins, a rock outcropping across Yosemite Valley from Half Dome. Wade Meade strapped on a bunch of headlamps and hiked up Half Dome at night while we ran five cameras for stills and timelapse. We rented the Zeiss 85mm f/1.4 Otus and 100 f/2 Milvus for maximum image quality, and ran 2 6Ds, a 5D3, a Sony A7R, and an A7R2. 8 8-minute exposures were stacked to produce this image.

 

Prints available. If Kurt and Wade sound familiar, it's because they joined me two summers ago for the Whitney night photography adventure.

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Uploaded on September 4, 2016
Taken on August 29, 2016