Lunar Eclipse in Yosemite
A few months ago, I realized that it was possible to align the May 15, 2022 lunar eclipse over Yosemite's Half Dome at twilight if I hiked up North Dome. Unfortunately Tioga Road (the obvious trailhead) was closed when the date arrived, so Matthew Saville and I had to hike up the (much longer) Yosemite Falls trail to North Dome. The total trip distance was something around 20 miles, 4000 ft vertical of gain and loss, and we carried 6 camera setups (including a star tracker and Canon 70-200 f/2.8L IS II, which is what I used to shoot this). Griff Joyce, who in 2020 led 50 people up Half Dome at night, and Mark Vierra donned harnesses and climbed the not-yet-up cables to place a light on the summit for this photo.
Clouds rolled in a little while after I took this photo, making the long exposures and timelapse video a little less clean than I had hoped. But so goes landscape photography.
This is a single exposure. There was no compositing, focal length blending, or HDRing. I like my landscape photos organic and free of artificial ingredients.
Lunar Eclipse in Yosemite
A few months ago, I realized that it was possible to align the May 15, 2022 lunar eclipse over Yosemite's Half Dome at twilight if I hiked up North Dome. Unfortunately Tioga Road (the obvious trailhead) was closed when the date arrived, so Matthew Saville and I had to hike up the (much longer) Yosemite Falls trail to North Dome. The total trip distance was something around 20 miles, 4000 ft vertical of gain and loss, and we carried 6 camera setups (including a star tracker and Canon 70-200 f/2.8L IS II, which is what I used to shoot this). Griff Joyce, who in 2020 led 50 people up Half Dome at night, and Mark Vierra donned harnesses and climbed the not-yet-up cables to place a light on the summit for this photo.
Clouds rolled in a little while after I took this photo, making the long exposures and timelapse video a little less clean than I had hoped. But so goes landscape photography.
This is a single exposure. There was no compositing, focal length blending, or HDRing. I like my landscape photos organic and free of artificial ingredients.