"Moonbow"... Night Rainbow in Lower Yosemite Fall
"Moonbow"... Night Rainbow in Lower Yosemite Fall
I'm looking forward to Spring waterfalls, vernal pools, wildflowers and of course rainbows at night, created the light of the full moon!
For this particular site, it's a good idea to wear rain gear. Seriously. The downdraft of wind created by water falling in the several stages of Yosemite Fall carries the spray and drives it horizontally into your face (and camera). You take a shot or two, move to the side behind some trees to wipe off the filter in front of your lens, cover the camera and bring it back out, to uncover just in time to capture the next shot. There are other locations which are further from the waterfall, where you won't have such an interesting time trying to take shots, but it's worth shooting here at least once for the unique experience.
#StarryNights #LongExposureThursday curators Francesco Gola and Le Quoc
Hehe, good to know. I always have my rain gear with me but having a decent set of dry lens cloths is something I'm adding to my camera bag list :D
ReplyDeleteLawrence Adams Something like a golf towel is great for the first wipe, since there's a fair amount of water on everything after even 30-60 seconds "out there". Of course any towel needs to be kept tucked under your jacket until you get back in the dry zone behind the trees (50' from the spray over the creek) since a soaking wet towel can't dry anything.
ReplyDeleteAny hand towel or beach towel will do, but the nice thing about a golf towel is that when you're off shooting other, drier sites it can clip to the tripod somewhere to hang and dry.
Fantastic Jeffrey Sullivan and the story. They should make camera's with wiper or something like on the camera's in F1 racing where dirt, etc gets cleared away.
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ReplyDeleteWOW...I have never seen anything like it...Outstanding photograph!
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ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I love the wonderful soft water and great texture in the rock. The sky is great and the rainbow is awesome! It's wonderful!!
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ReplyDeleteVictor Chen It's hard to know exactly what shade of blue the sky is at night under a full moon, since it's too dim for your eyes to register any color (it does show up in photos as blue though, due to the same scattering of light that creates the impression of a blue sky during the day). I forgot to mention that... your eyes can see the rainbow, but only in black and white, due to contrast. There are too few photons for the rods and cones in our eyes to pick up any color from it.
ReplyDeleteAndrew Sanigorski Now that you mention it, you can use fans to blow the water away!
ReplyDeleteExcellent Jeffrey Sullivan . It's great to get one. Gotta do that hike every full moon and hope to have clear skyies. Awesome!
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