Shed Your Head: Lee Vining Canyon by Moonlight

Lee Vining Canyon by Moonlight

2006-07-22T11:18:00-07:00

July 13th, early morning:

On the way to Mark’s place, the full moon over Lee Vining Canyon just blew me away. I couldn’t keep my eyes on the road. That’s as good a time as any to learn how to take long-exposure pictures so I tried to balance the camera on Bessie and figure it out. Turns out you really really need a tripod.

Comment on Lee Vining Canyon by Moonlight by bronson

2006-07-24T16:14:01-07:00

These photos might be cropped but not tweaked in any way. The air was a little misty; that might explain the veil.

I noticed that mashing the button without shaking the camera is near impossible. So use the timer… That’s brilliant!

Comment on Lee Vining Canyon by Moonlight by dr Dave

2006-07-23T03:23:22-07:00

Not so bad for pictures without extensive equipment!

But did you take the picture from inside the car? there seems to be a bit of a veil… you could probably get rid of it by tweaking levels in $favoritephotosoftware… Also I’m not sure if you did (can’t see it in the Exif data…), but when taking long-exposure pics without a tripod, the trick is to always use the timer… Helps keeping it perfectly still on its surface while it takes the picture…