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Last summer Sean Goebel (fellow FM member) and I went on a backpacking trip to Mount Watkins in Yosemite National Park to shoot star trails, the Milky Way, and time lapse of another friend Wade Meade climbing up Half Dome at night. In addition to the time lapse, there were three still compositions with the Cable Route lit up.
We entered my version of the star trail shots in the 2017 Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition and we won 2nd place in the "People and Space" category! The winning image is the close-up view, taken with an A7r and 100mm Zeiss Milvus F2. 8x 8 minute exposures stacked, ISO 500. I think it was F2.8
The wide view is with the A7r2 and Batis 25mm, also 8x 8, ISO 800 F4.0
Vertical milky way is 176 15 second exposures for the land stacked and averaged, 1 15 second exposure for the sky. Rokinon 50mm 1.4 on Canon 6D at ISO 12,800. (I think F2)
Check out the time lapse video that Sean put together. It's awesome.
I wrote a little blog post about it which has more photos from the trip.
The Cable Route of Half Dome at Night, 2017 APOY Runner Up
The Cable Route of Half Dome at Night, Wide Edition
Amazing work! I like the wide view best because it shows the valley floor and what looks like Yosemite Village. How long does it take to hike that part of the Half Dome trail?
IShootThings wrote:
Amazing work! I like the wide view best because it shows the valley floor and what looks like Yosemite Village. How long does it take to hike that part of the Half Dome trail?
We had to ask our friend to go as slowly as he could tolerate, and it took him less than an hour to go up the cables to the summit.
I'm a stills guy but I really preferred what the video was able to capture over the stills. That's not to say your stills are not great - as they are really good! Difficult to pick a fav as all three uniquely stand strong on their own. I do prefer the wide capture that's in the video over the still you posted - as I prefer the shadow recovery in the video version. Nevertheless you got my vote!
Dave
Very interesting shots. I was not aware that the cable route had a dip as shown. Most pics I saw showed a very steep chain-cable ascent and appeared very scary.
dalite wrote:
Very interesting shots. I was not aware that the cable route had a dip as shown. Most pics I saw showed a very steep chain-cable ascent and appeared very scary.
The cable route is after the hump. The foreground hump here is called "subdome" and you go over that to get to the cables. The Cable Route definitely has exposure and people have died tumbling down from it. But, it's surely the safest route to the top
