Posted by Paul Dileanis on January 20, 2009 at 5:25 PM
By sheer coincidence I ended up in Yosemite for the January full moon. I missed the moonrise on Jan. 10 because I had to get my parents settled into their room at the lodge. I did get out into the meadow that night and the following night to try my hand at some images by moonlight. I caught this view of the moon rising above Washington Column while I was waiting for the moon to light up the meadow. A quick edit of more images (along with a re-creation of the Jan. 10 moonrise)can be seen at the following smugmug gallery.
There has been no fresh snow since Christmas time and patches of pristine snow on the valley floor were rare as hens teeth. Photographically maybe not the best trip, but for my parents who met in 1949 while working in Yosemite and were married at the chapel in 1950, the trip was magic.
I like this! Very minimalist, good silhouette and good detail in the moon. The only thing missing is a witch on a broomstick.
Posted by Derek Sedillo on January 21, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Paul,
I like this image. The moon detail is great. You have really compressed the image with that larger moon look against the tree and hill. How long of a lens did you use for this? Just curious.
Another thing I find interesting is that there are no stars in this particular image. Did you purposely eliminate everything but the silhouette for this effect? Or was that all that was visible?
Derek
Posted by Paul Dileanis on January 22, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Thank you all for your comments. Next time, Harley, I will cue the witches.
Derek, The attached photo was taken just moments before I chased the "moonshadow " across the meadow to position myself for the silouhette originally posted. There are some clouds that probably obscured any nearby bright stars and combined with the 1/100 @ f/18 exposure to capture the detail in the moon as well as retain some depth of field most likely accounts for no stars in the image. The lens used for the first image was a 400/5.6L.
Posted by Steve Sieren on January 22, 2009 at 2:22 PM
WOW, when I first looked I immediately thought of the movie ET. Only saw it once years ago, but the image sure hit a brain cell for total recall for me anyway.
Posted by Nelcha Cross on January 24, 2009 at 6:04 AM
Really kewl Paul....
This is PROOF why I do NOT believe in "No good deed goes unpunished."
What a Present awaited for you after you helped your folks....
Added trivia for you: The Jan Full Moon is called the "Wolf Moon" and
although the Sun is in Capricorn the Moon is in Cancer
Yosemite always provides.....
Love- Mist and Aspen Trees2 and Dmitri....
Kudos on a beautiful trip/set.
in gratitude,
Nelcha - Sacramento
"Let the beauty we love be what we do." ~ Rumi
Posted by Dan Truong on February 13, 2009 at 5:17 AM
Paul,
You have a very nice series of night shots, portraits and day shots. It shows very good mastery of techniques and conditions which I can only envy. I don't know what you're saying with:
"Photographically maybe not the best trip"
... It's not bad at all.
What lens or how much cropping did you do to shoot this beautiful moonlit shadow? 800mm? 1200mm?
Posted by Paul Dileanis on February 14, 2009 at 2:51 AM
Dan,
Thank you for the compliments. It was probably not the best trip "photographically" in that the snow was very tracked up and it took every bit of "mastery" I could muster to find the shot. In addition, I am my own worst critic.
The lens used was the Canon 400mm f/5.6L. On the 20D it has an equivalent angle of view to a 620mm in 35mm. Only a slight bit of cropping was used to tune the composition.
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There has been no fresh snow since Christmas time and patches of pristine snow on the valley floor were rare as hens teeth. Photographically maybe not the best trip, but for my parents who met in 1949 while working in Yosemite and were married at the chapel in 1950, the trip was magic.
Paul
I like this image. The moon detail is great. You have really compressed the image with that larger moon look against the tree and hill. How long of a lens did you use for this? Just curious.
Another thing I find interesting is that there are no stars in this particular image. Did you purposely eliminate everything but the silhouette for this effect? Or was that all that was visible?
Derek
Derek, The attached photo was taken just moments before I chased the "moonshadow " across the meadow to position myself for the silouhette originally posted. There are some clouds that probably obscured any nearby bright stars and combined with the 1/100 @ f/18 exposure to capture the detail in the moon as well as retain some depth of field most likely accounts for no stars in the image. The lens used for the first image was a 400/5.6L.
This is PROOF why I do NOT believe in "No good deed goes unpunished."
What a Present awaited for you after you helped your folks....
Added trivia for you: The Jan Full Moon is called the "Wolf Moon" and
although the Sun is in Capricorn the Moon is in Cancer
Yosemite always provides.....
Love- Mist and Aspen Trees2 and Dmitri....
Kudos on a beautiful trip/set.
in gratitude,
Nelcha - Sacramento
"Let the beauty we love be what we do." ~ Rumi
You have a very nice series of night shots, portraits and day shots. It shows very good mastery of techniques and conditions which I can only envy. I don't know what you're saying with:
"Photographically maybe not the best trip"
... It's not bad at all.
What lens or how much cropping did you do to shoot this beautiful moonlit shadow? 800mm? 1200mm?
Thank you for the compliments. It was probably not the best trip "photographically" in that the snow was very tracked up and it took every bit of "mastery" I could muster to find the shot. In addition, I am my own worst critic.
The lens used was the Canon 400mm f/5.6L. On the 20D it has an equivalent angle of view to a 620mm in 35mm. Only a slight bit of cropping was used to tune the composition.
Paul