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aguacaliente
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Jan 28, 2010 - 01:00pm PT
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Cool trip and nice pictures. I like the second from last. It can be difficult to bring something new to such a heavily photographed landscape but your report and the pictures and the persistence in not "ideal" conditions do that.
I'm sort of disturbed to learn from the screenshot that Google Earth is tracking Bear #81.34, though. These radio collars are getting out of hand.
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Jan 28, 2010 - 01:10pm PT
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Thank you for sharing!
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Dirka
Trad climber
SF
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Jan 28, 2010 - 01:22pm PT
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Ed is the man! Great pictures. You werent tempted to climb a little bit on all those rocks?
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Jan 28, 2010 - 02:13pm PT
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Excellent pictures Ed. I love the dramatic clouds and the dark sky.
I stumbled onto a similar set up November 2008. This was taken from the Falls Trail, a few switchbacks up. The clouds refused to move fully out of the way of the moon, and by the time I got to a clear viewpoint it was kinda too late, but that's how it goes sometimes.
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Jingy
Social climber
Nowhere
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Jan 28, 2010 - 03:42pm PT
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Thanks Ed.. Great stuff...
Glad you had a chance to observe.... in peace!!!
Cheers
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Jan 28, 2010 - 09:46pm PT
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Thank you so much Ed - best 10 minutes of the day has made my day.
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Ricardo Cabeza
climber
All Over.
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Jan 28, 2010 - 10:29pm PT
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Thanks, Ed.
Those shots are great, and the historical perspective makes it better!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 28, 2010 - 11:12pm PT
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thanks for the comments all...
great image crunch! a friend of mine used to say that "90% of life is just showing up" it was great to be there and being forced to capture what was rather than what I thought it would be...
I never got to talk with Ansel Adams, it would have been interesting, perhaps... but when reading his written accounts about visualization I would dissociate it from time. Visualization seemed like such a static process. But as I started to photograph more I realized that I was "visualizing" the image in anticipation of the image... like shooting a climber on a climb I was familiar with, knowing what the sequence of moves would be and waiting to click the shutter until I had the pose I was looking for, without posing the climber. Then doing the same on climbs I hadn't done, but read the move sequence, and waited for the image.
This is such an improvisational process that it took me a while to realize that it happens in almost everything I've been shooting, since I generally shoot in situations where I have little control over the conditions. I can position myself, decide on cropping, decide on exposure, but wait for everything else.
I don't know if that was what Adams was saying, but now after my attempts at repeating some of his images I have a vastly greater appreciation of his ability to visualize the image in time, and the grand improvisations that he performed with nature which resulted in his art.
Like anything else genius, it appears so effortless.
And so it was yesterday, when I was riffing off the weather... it was not effortless, I'm not sure I got to where I wanted to be with it all... but I certainly learned a lot and it was artistically recreational.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 29, 2010 - 11:48pm PT
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Got the roll of black & white back.
The film is Ilford Pan F Plus which has ISO 50, it is a wonderful film... I'm really happy with it. These are all taken with my Nikon FM2N.
Here is a quick first pass... these 8-bit jpegs aren't as rich as the 16-bit tiffs
My actual position was 11S0273348, 4180182, 1211m
lens: Nikkor 50mm f1.4 + Nikon Teleconverter TC-200 2x
filter: Hoya HMC Red (25A)
exposure: f11, 1/2 s
lens: Nikkor 50mm f1.4 + Nikon Teleconverter TC-200 2x
filter: Hoya HMC Yellow (K2) + Skylight (1B)
exposure: f11, 1/8 s
lens: Nikkor 50mm f1.4 + Nikon Teleconverter TC-200 2x
filter: Hoya HMC Yellow (K2) + Skylight (1B)
exposure: f5.6, 1/15 s
lens: Nikkor 50mm f1.4 + Nikon Teleconverter TC-200 2x
filter: Hoya HMC Red (25A)
exposure: f4, 1/15 s
lens: Nikkor 50mm f1.4 + Nikon Teleconverter TC-200 2x
filter: Hoya HMC Red (25A)
exposure: f2.6, 1/15 s
lens: Nikkor 24mm f2.8
filter: Hoya HMC Red (25A)
exposure: f4, 1/15 s
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Double D
climber
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Jan 30, 2010 - 12:35am PT
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Sweet!
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
climber
. . . not !
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Jan 30, 2010 - 01:12pm PT
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That little cloud that gets in-between the porcelain wall/diving board and the face can be nice . I took this from up in the talus below the apron BITD . I only have the contact sheet image now .
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2010 - 03:02pm PT
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it's fun to learn about how to use the mist and clouds to provide three dimensionality to the images... it greatly enhances the "seeing" aspect of being in the Valley...
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goatboy smellz
climber
लघिमा
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Jan 30, 2010 - 06:40pm PT
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Stellar views Ed!
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CF
climber
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Jan 30, 2010 - 08:24pm PT
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Last nights moon
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2010 - 08:36pm PT
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pretty CF,
very soft
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john hansen
climber
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Jan 31, 2010 - 02:10pm PT
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Here is one I took at almost the exact same time as Ed,s , 4:47 pm Wednesday Jan 27th from the bridge. the moon was obscured by clouds and farther to the left than from Eds location in the meadow
Got a couple others of the moon over Sentinal Spire I will post later.
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Jan 31, 2010 - 02:30pm PT
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Love the B&W shots Ed, more atmospheric, more dramatic. B&W #3 is my favorite.
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Slakkey
Big Wall climber
From Back to Big Wall Baby
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Jan 31, 2010 - 02:31pm PT
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I also like the BW shots sweet
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 31, 2010 - 02:58pm PT
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I've been working on printing the B&W shots... so far my favorites (which means I've gotten satisfactory prints) are #1 and #3... #2 doesn't have a lot going on in it, but if you're a climber the entire RNWF is in view, lit by the slanting rays... and #4 has a better Moon then #3, but too much of Half-Dome is obscured to provide the tension between "dark and light" that diagonals down the image from the top right corner to the lower left corner on #3.
...I've got an idea for #5, to crop it vertically, and for #6 where I can do a good job bringing the detail out in the deep shadows of the trees at the bottom of the picture....
Got to go on a suburban hike to acquire more ink...
the film has an unbelievable tonal range... and the 35mm format is blowing up to 12"x18" without much grain...
I'm having a lot of fun with these!
John, I had calculated positions for the Moon rise from Glacier Point Apron, and also from the Wawona Tunnel view, which were too far south for the shot I was looking for... I wasn't sure how well the Stoneman Meadow would be, but given the weather it was a great place....
I'll do some calculations for Feb... I have another photog project in the works anyway...
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Jan 31, 2010 - 03:03pm PT
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Wow, John, that's a unique shot!!!!
Nice!~!
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