Sentinel Glow

Gallery: LandscapePosted November 9, 2010258 views15 comments

On the final evening of the workshop we witnessed an amazing display of alpine glow across the Range of Light as seen from the top of Sentinel Dome. I am sure this scene is iconic, but it was so exciting to see this and capture it. To my amazement, those on the workshop were putting away their cameras just as the glow as peaking. I urged them to keep photographing as the light show was just beginning.

This was taken digitally as 6 frames and stitched together in PS. I had run out of 4x5 film by this point and am quite disappointed to not have captured this on 4x5.

Enjoy.

Comments

15 comments

Comment posted by Dean Sauskojus on November 9, 2010 at 1:47 AM

Really beautiful light Youssef. You picked up some nice color in the sky to. this would be lovely to see large I'm sure. Was it possible to include more of the base of the foreground trees or were there to many distractions in foreground? Beauty of a pan.

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Comment posted by Dorin Bofan on November 9, 2010 at 4:02 AM

The light is simply mesmerizing, especially in the fg trees. The pano does wonders in showing the beautiful moment you experienced.

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Comment posted by Mark Pelton on November 9, 2010 at 7:53 AM

Gorgeous scene and the earth shadow makes it even better. Good timing of the shot.

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Comment posted by Arnab Banerjee on November 9, 2010 at 10:49 AM

The pano version really works here. I have not seen anything like this before - amazing

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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on November 9, 2010 at 12:22 PM

Youssef,

This is fantastic! Ya know, Sentinel Dome is a pretty popular location in a park wildly famous and I'm sure there are gazillions of images taken from this location. But I have to say I've never seen this viewpoint and I think this is refreshing. Kudos to you for this rendition. And the conditions and colors couldn't be more beautiful. Great work!

Lon

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Comment posted by Bill Maile on November 9, 2010 at 1:32 PM

Beautiful pano Youssef, gorgeous. Only nit is that small spot of what looks like rock and a dead tree in the LLC.

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Comment posted by Mike Ryan on November 9, 2010 at 3:59 PM

Beautiful scene Youssef. Yosemite is such a magical place. I could get never tired of it. Glad you kept your camera ready and instructed your group to do the same. This image is proof that mother nature keeps on giving even after the sun has gone down.

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Comment posted by Eric Good on November 9, 2010 at 4:30 PM

The beautiful soft light and details come through nicely in the larger version. What a view! It does have a CC feel to it looking at the Earth's shadow as a reference, but everything else looks plumb. Nice stitch work!

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Comment posted by Vance Gese on November 9, 2010 at 6:07 PM

Incredible pano, Youssef. The color and detail is amazing, but the light is stunning.

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Comment posted by Jason Kim on November 9, 2010 at 6:43 PM

Very nice, soft light across this gorgeous view. I bet this will make a lovely large print.

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Comment posted by Jason Kim on November 9, 2010 at 6:43 PM

Very nice, soft light across this gorgeous view. I bet this will make a lovely large print.

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Comment posted by Richard Wong on November 9, 2010 at 7:07 PM

I like the comp and the light. The only nit would be that there is very little separation in tones from Half Dome to the peaks behind it, if you could make Half Dome more contrasty then it might stick out a little more.