Bridalveil Falls Profile Before the Storm

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Bridalveil Falls Profile Before the Storm

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As I got to Yosemite earlier this week, the forecast was calling for rain and snow in the second half of the day, but the sky was clear in the morning. The clouds started rolling in a later afternoon, and by next day, the snow and rain was in full action. Right now we’re experiencing one of the last storms of this winter. To capture two moving elements in this image – the clouds that were moving left, and the Merced River that was moving right in this photo – I decided to do it with a long exposure.

I kept going back and forth whether to keep this one in color or not. In fact, it’s been a while I posted a B&W image, but I decided to try something different here, and keep it monochrome.

Nikon D300
20mm, f/16, 61 secs, ISO100
ND400 + Lee ND Grad 0.9+0.6

Published: April 2, 2010

Filed Under: Nature

Tags: bridalveil falls : yosemite

http://seldomscenephotography.com Argos

Great capture — I really like what the long exposure did for the sky! I’m still going back & forth on the river, though — at first I thought it was a snow-covered field.
http://www.ivanmakarov.com Ivan Makarov

Thanks for your feedback. Now that I look at it, I think I may see what you mean.

I tried non-long exposures, of course, but the river just looks too random and too distracting for the eye. Maybe I’ll think about making it darker instead for a similar image.

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