Valley Floor At Dusk

BlackRockArt

BlackRockArt

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The snowstorm moved away from the Yosemite Valley just before the sunset, I was trying to fix the snow chains as I was lying under the car to notice the color in the sky.

I grabbed my tripod and camera to sprint to the locations around the meadow, the fleeting lights were seen only for 10 min.

Enjoy.

Oliver

 
JimFox

JimFox

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Oliver, I know that spot, and it's sure awesome! It's great you crawled from doing your chains to capture this. The pink glow is really sweet.

The one thing I would suggest is to clone out those branches poking into the frame from the top. They aren't really framing it, for me they just keep distracting my eye and pulling my eye away from the rest of the image.
 
BlackRockArt

BlackRockArt

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John Holbrook said:
Glad you had your priorities straight—photography first! Very nice image.
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John, I was being cautious with the road conditions, once the Sun went down, the temperature dropped to below 30 F quickly, afterwards going out hill d be challenging.
Jim Dockery said:
Beautiful. Good call on leaving the chain work to capture this. Love the smooth snow in the meadow.
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I got the regular chains on, but the knocking sound kept coming out whenever I went above 20miles.
JimFox said:
Oliver, I know that spot, and it's sure awesome! It's great you crawled from doing your chains to capture this. The pink glow is really sweet.

The one thing I would suggest is to clone out those branches poking into the frame from the top. They aren't really framing it, for me they just keep distracting my eye and pulling my eye away from the rest of the image.
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Jim , thanks! Yes, this is a good spot, The valley floor has changed a lot, many parts have been closed off for the meadow restoration, every time I go back, I find little changes here and there.

As for the tree branches, I thought about cloning off the corner too, but I don't want to be crucified by the purist photographer circles for removing objects in the frame.😂

Oliver
 
Douglas Sherman

Douglas Sherman

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Good photography is art. It is not just to record what's there. Furthermore, if you cloned the branches out, how would anyone know they were there originally? By the way, Oliver, this is a nice image.
 
JimFox

JimFox

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Staff member
BlackRockArt said:
John, I was being cautious with the road conditions, once the Sun went down, the temperature dropped to below 30 F quickly, afterwards going out hill d be challenging.


I got the regular chains on, but the knocking sound kept coming out whenever I went above 20miles.


Jim , thanks! Yes, this is a good spot, The valley floor has changed a lot, many parts have been closed off for the meadow restoration, every time I go back, I find little changes here and there.

As for the tree branches, I thought about cloning off the corner too, but I don't want to be crucified by the purist photographer circles for removing objects in the frame.😂

Oliver
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Awe… those Purists have been sent back in time to the 1600’s so you are now safe to clone those branches out. :)

I can safely say the majority of us here clone ourselves branches or leaves or the odd thing poking into the scene. I would say we all have been out shooting and as we composed we would see a dead branch laying in the middle of the composition, and we would walk and pick it up and toss it out of it. Many a time I had to manually hold back a branch that was in my shot. Try as purists might, there truly is no such thing. Every image is modified, whether it is be the programming code in your camera, the emulsions to develope prints or slides… purists are built on their ego, and their lofty standing is to just make themselves feel special (and I don’t think there are many left as one look at Instagram would give them all heart attacks).

So let your art drive you, like Doug referenced. Even those who photograph and they say they are just documenting, are still artists no matter how much they vehemently deny it.

Clone away, and don’t think another thing of it. You don’t need to tell any of us you did. Now if you are compositing other items or parts of other photos into another photo, it’s always nice to say you did that. But to clone out a branch, or a power line? Have at it!

:)
 
dan swiger

dan swiger

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BlackRockArt said:
The snowstorm moved away from the Yosemite Valley just before the sunset, I was trying to fix the snow chains as I was lying under the car to notice the color in the sky.

I grabbed my tripod and camera to sprint to the locations around the meadow, the fleeting lights were seen only for 10 min.

Enjoy.

Oliver

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I love this small "family" of trees, having seen in all 4 seasons
 
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