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I was hoping the moon would move into the arch, but its path took it behind the thicker arm. This view is from a perch on a small round of smooth granite and no way to move more than about a foot. The mountains were gorgeous when the sun hit them, but I’ve posted that one before so I’ll put up this one.
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Technical Details
The usual futzing with global tonal sliders in LR, then into PS for a little enhancement of the mountains.
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Diane, a very classic look at Mobius Arch with the added plus of the moon here. And yes, Mt. Whitney and the eastern sierras are always a photographers hunting grounds as it were. No thoughts for changes here at all…
The only image I have from here I took many years ago with a 90mm on a 4x5. I actually waited for the sun to be high enough to cast the arch shadow on the lower portion to make a loop. Just for a different look. With your expertise in astro photography do you use the TPE program for sun & moon travels? I use it all the time for just general landscape stuff especially the 3D program for up or down slope light projections.
Thanks, @Paul_Breitkreuz and @Don_Peters! Paul, I can’t imagine setting up a 4x5 on that perch! At least you would have been clear of the sunrise crowd. The image sounds wonderful – I’d bet everyone would love to see it!
I use TPE for lunar and Milky Way stuff, but I don’t do a lot of landscape so my reliance on it isn’t as sophisticated as it should be – I rarely have need for the 3D projections, amazing as they are. I don’t usually have the flexibility to really take advantage of them. My landscape work is always in defiance of some corollary or other of Murphy’s Law, and physics always wins.
Hi Diane, I understand your point on the TPE usage. I need it all the time before I go out in the field.
Here was the Mobius image I mentioned. I’ve not touched it in years so just a rough look see here…
Great image Diane, yes, it would have been cool to have the moon move into the arch. I wonder if @Joshua_Cripps has gotten a shot like that yet. I can’t recall. Anyway, it is still a beautiful image
Diane, I really like this. I had a good look and my eyes kept going from the arch, to the mountains and then to the moon, however I like the mountains most of all. I wonder if a crop removing some left (so the moon is equidistant from the top and lhs and a little from the bottom would emphasize the mountains more. This comment does assume your favourite bit is the mountains!
Wow, great shot! I love how light and airy this photo feels. I like the placement of the moon and how it keeps my attention hopping back and forth between it and Whitney. It implies a relationship between the two where they are trying to be close to each other but geology and geometry are preventing them.
Thanks, @Martha_Montiel and @Rob_Sykes! Rob, I don’t think I would want to take that much off the left or any off the bottom as it would crowd the left end of the arch and the rock behind it. Maybe a tweak could come off the left… The mountains are the center of interest (that’s Mt. Whitney toward the right) but I like including this much of the arch. I’ve shot it on another trip with a wider lens to show more of it, but the mountains got even smaller.
Thanks again, @Joshua_Cripps! That’s not my best lens for starbursts, but I might be able to do some processing that would make it better.
@Rob_Sykes, I don’t, but i see your point that it would make the mountains bigger in the arch. There is quite an accumulation of boulders behind this perch but I think I’ve seen pictures that might be from farther back.
Joshua would have done it if it’s possible??? Yours looks like it might have been from the back side of the egg? I think I tried getting back there but it’s a narrow canyon and neither I nor the tripod was tall enough to shoot over the egg from there – if I remember right…
Very nice and the blue sky color is spot on. The color bands of the light hitting the mountains in the BG add significantly to the comp. I like this one as presented…Jim
