Moonrise over El Capitan and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California 2010

Moonrise over El Capitan and Half Dome,
Yosemite National Park, California 2010

167 sec at f/16, focal length: 70mm, ISO 100, Manual (Bulb),
- 29 January 2010 7:04pm PST. Photographed with Canon EOS 5D MarkII, EF 70-200mm f/4L, Tripod Mounted

This image was made exactly 30 minutes prior to the black and white image from Gates of the Valley in the previous post. My Dad and I thought we'd start to head out of the park via HWY 41 and stop at Tunnel View to see if anything was going on. Well something was going on and there were every bit of 30 other photographer's there to document it. So we drove through the tunnel and stopped at Turtleback Dome for a slightly different perspective. We were the only ones there.

I have to say that I'm in love with "live view". Without it, I would've focused just shy of infinity, stopped down and hoped for the best. But because of live view, I was able to zoom in to various points within the image and know that it was going to be sharp.