Oh. Well, no problemo then. A tour company will go to Valley View and the one I mentioned of El Capitan. They are pretty standard. Use exposure compensation. Yosemite is harder to shoot than first appears, bright rock, blue-blue sky, so the rock can come out too dark.
Have fun!!! Marnie In a message dated 4/17/2013 2:53:03 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hi Marnie Thanks for those detailed notes - printed out and packed! I'm not sure how well we'll be able to seek out those locations - we decided that self driving for a one day trip would be too tiring so we're going with a tour company. Fortunately, it's only a fairly small vehicle so there might be some flexibility in locations. Thanks for the tip about Andrew Hudson's book. I see it's available in Kindle format. Something else to read on the flight! Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ Quoting [email protected]: > My recommendations for one day shooting in Yosemite: There are > traditional places to stop for "views," good for photography. Get a > good Yosemite > map. Actually I have a book I have used for years for photo stops. It has a > Yosemite map and recommends the best views. (I looked up my > favorite view and > am now unsure of its name, but I think it is near the Bridalveil Fall > View, just beyond it. El Capitan and the River -- El Capitan gets > reflected in > the river and at sunset turns pink. Be there right before sunset. > > Behind Curry Meadows, right around there, is one of the best views of Half > Dome, without hiking. Get it either early morning (unlikely in one day) or > late afternoon as the sun starts going down, then hurry over to the other > side of the valley for El Capitan at sunset. Allow about 45 minutes to 1 > hour between, an hour is better, so you can catch both. > > Also visit the Awahnee Hotel, dating from the 1930's, I think. It is a > gas. It will feel like "Old Hollywood" when you see it -- craftsman meets > opulence. Lunches can be a bit pricey, but a lot less than dinners. > I often go > there for lunch. It also has the best gift shop. And right before it, on > the road to it, is another very good view of Half Dome. > > Here's the name of the book, which I have found incredibly handy over the > years, "San Francisco and Northern California: The Best Sights and How to > Photograph Them," by Andrew Hudson. Published by Photosecrets Publishing. > It has photographs showing how shooting from a certain spot will look (not > just in Yosemite, but in San Francisco, places all over Northern > California). > > Have a good trip, Marnie aka Doe :-) > > In a message dated 4/16/2013 6:55:46 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > Quoting "Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]>: > >> No side trip to Yosemite? > > > > Yes. Definitely. Chris must have left that out of the map by > mistake. Unfortunately it will only be a day trip. > > > -- > Cheers > > Brian > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
