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Yosemite Falls Moonbows

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Wow, amazing pictures. I like the 4th and 3rd pictures the best. Is the moonbow easy to see in person, or is too dark?
Kevin
 
The moonbow in the lower falls is visibile as a slivery bow. The eye doesn't pickup much color at night. Until this year, I've always considered claims that you can see the Upper Falls moonbow as just people imagining structure in the falls that they can not actually see. However, this year with the high runoff, I was able to see the bow unaided in the falls from Cook's meadow. I didn't notice it when I was at the road near the chapel, but then I was not expecting to see it anyway.
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Carl A. Bernhardt
 
Carl Bernhardt said:
With the above average runoff, they expect to see moonbows through June or July. I plan to be there for the full moon in May.
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Wow! I wish I could join you. I can't wait to see what you are able to capture in May...hopefully the skies will be clear enough for the moon to light up your scene.

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Mahesh

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Very interesting idea! The moonbow, well executed, I have done a lot of night photography and the thing that has been a bit of a paradox is if you expose long enough it doesn't look like it's a night photo anymore.. So I've developed a thinking that night photography should say something diifirent than daylight photography, some aspect of night time needs to be retained.. Glass like water on the sea, movement in trees creating interesting blur..

These shots though beautiful, are capturing a rainbow at a waterfall, this also could be captured in the daytime..

The best is with the reflection in the water.. here there is a sense that something unusual is happening.. Why is the water so clear and glasslike is the thought that crosses the mind..

Just a few thoughts about Night photography, not necessaritly critical of your efforts here..

Brent

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henryimages said:
I understand what you are saying, but wouldn't you say that they are quite distinctive as night photos due to the stars? Pretty hard to capture stars in the daytime.
Brent
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You got me there Brent, I hadn't zoomed the images so I didn't notice the stars.. Yes they do alot to add the magic of night'time to these images for sure..

Now my thoughts about the feel of night that gets lost when the exposure brings everything up to almost daytime clarity, it's this the vexes me with long exposure night photography.. What I'm after is a nice balance between some dicernable features, and then that nice inky darkness that brings the mysteriousness of night on in.. I've had some experiecne with using flash just to gently light paint up a few features in a scene.. It's fun but I need more gear and a helper I think..

The more I study these images of the moonbow the more details I discover that make it plain that these are definately night time slow exporsure shots, the milky smooth mists at the base of the falls, the feathery dusks of clouds, the sharpness of the details in the rock face, naturally polarized light source of the moon all these things I've noticed about night photography, charming subtle effects for sure..

Anyways these images here, are high quality no doubt about it.. And I'm happy to spend time with them again and again.

Regards

Brent of the Copenhagen
 
The are the first PP cut on my photos. I may pull back the exposure to darken and give a more night feel. However, I find that exposing them as a daytime exposure does reduce some of the noise artifacts that may show up if I was trying to extract detail out of a dark underexposed image. I would be interested to see how much improvement the K5 would have over my K7 in shooting the night exposures.
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Carl A. Bernhardt
 
Yes, they were taken at night. Long exposures during a full moon can look like a day light site unless you underexpose the shot. Here are a few more night, full moon shots. The clouds in the first few shots act as a diffuser and makes the image look like a daytime cloudy shot with a bad white balence setting.
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