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Overtop Yosemite Falls

nobody@flickr.com (tychay) — Wed, 24 May 2006 01:00:14 -0700

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Blogged in The Woodwork: Postprocessing for outdoor photography

Overtop Yosemite Falls
Yosemite Falls Overlook, Yosemite National Park, California

Nikon D70, Nikkor 12-24mm f/4G
DxO (wb, exp, blur, distorion, ca, vignette. noise, loughting) PTMac (rectangular, autopano, stitch, enblend) nik CEP (brilliance/warmth, polarization, gradient nd) Aperture (rotate, crop, highlights/shadows, sharpen
5 exposures (1/400 - 1/250sec) @ f/9, iso 200, 12mm (18mm)
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I’m deathly afraid of heights so even getting to the overlook was a case of learned helplessness: “I’m here anyway so I might as well walk a few more steps.”

Because of this, I couldn’t get as much a view as I had Caitlin hold on to me as I took the 5 exposures that went into this shot to hopefully show you what the view was like at the top.

Besides the Merced River coursing into the top of Lower Yosemite Falls, you can see Yosemite Villiage and Yosemite Lodge far away. Looking at this stuff through a ultra-wide angle didn’t help my acrophobia any.

I couldn’t figure if there was a polarizer setting that would highlight the rainbow so I removed it for this series and upped it’s saturation using post processing. I liked the saturation so I applied half of it to the rest of the shot. The other digital filters were designed to remove the haze and up the contrast on the sky. There were some wonderful clouds that day.

I’ll probably fix the oversaturation on the sky and reupload later.

Click to see untouched the PTMac stitch used (If you cannot view this, add me to your contacts and I’ll add you to my friends. If you are already a contact of mine then just jet me a message and I'll fix your status.)

Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls

nobody@flickr.com (tychay) — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 01:39:02 -0700

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Blogged in The Woodwork: Postprocessing for outdoor photography
Blogged in The Woodwork: Running with cameras

Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls
Yosemite National Park, California

Nikon D70, Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G DX
UV
Adobe RAW (wb), NeatImage (denoise, sharpen), Photoshop (lensfix, saturation), nik CEP (blue grad filter)
1/500sec @ f/9, iso 800, 35mm (52mm)
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I walked most of the way back to Camp 4 because it was a rare opportunity to get some photography with the morning sun.

Issues: ISO was set wrong from astrophotography last night; camera wasn't exposure bracketing correctly; I don't own a polarizing filter for this lens

CotC: Most favorited photo until January 2006

Caitlin captures Upper Yosemite Falls

nobody@flickr.com (tychay) — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 02:29:41 -0700

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Caitlin takes a snapshot of Upper Yosemite Falls. There is a picture of me taking this photo (proof).

If you want to take a good photo of the entire Yosemite Falls from this distance, you need to set your exposure control down 2/3'ds of a stop or the water highlights will get blown out. I like the colors, so I pretty much kept the photo "as is". A little sharpening gave the dead tree and the granite rockface a paint-like look.

Filters: UV
Adjustments: LensFix, smart sharpening
Issues: A polarizing filter for this lens would have been nice.