The Cable Route of Half Dome at Night

Doing a rare bump to the front of my photostream because WE WON 2ND PLACE at the 2017 Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition in the People and Space category! How cool is that?

Sean Goebel and I embarked on a mission to shoot a night hike up the Cable Route of Yosemite’s incredible Half Dome. For us it entailed hiking some 110 lbs of gear and water between the two of us to the summit of Mount Watkins, a sculpted rocky mountain that forms a prominent point northeast of Half Dome on the other side of Tenaya Canyon. From Mount Watkins, we set up our 5 cameras for time lapse and stills while our friend Wade Meade made the ascent from Yosemite Valley to the summit lighting the trail with a small lantern and some bright headlamps. Luck prevailed and we had nearly clear skies to capture the movement of the stars above this incredible landscape. Wade had no trouble reaching the summit at night. For this particular view, we used a Sony A7r with Zeiss Milvus 100mm F2 macro EF lens at F2.8. The exposure 8x 8 minute exposures stacked together for a total of 64 minutes. The Zeiss was mounted to the A7r via a Metabones EF IV T adapter. Prints are available.

Taken on: August 29, 2016

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Camera: Sony ILCE-7R, f/2.8, 470 sec, 100mm, ISO 500 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony ILCE-7R
Lens:	Metabones 100/2
Aperture:	f/2.8
Exposure Time:	470
Focal Length:	100mm
ISO:	500
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.7 (Macintosh)
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