Yosemite High Water
White Water stereo photos - small
crossed
views from Realist slides
Vernal
Falls 1/150
This exposure was set two stops below a reading taken off the
whitewater. The background is a forest in shadow, well out
of range.
Photographer courts death near
slimy granite at the top of Nevada Falls. This exposure is good
for the daylight scene but
the water is overexposed, but this is how it really looks - white!
While looking down into 625 feet
of falling white water there is a sound like rolling thunder.
This is properly exposed for the
plume of water and the background is a bit dark. This is simply
metered off the subject.
plume
Upper Yosemite Falls could have
used a 1/2 stop less on this one. Notice how the detail is lost
in the upper water. The shade
can be three stops below the full sun on the right. The HP film
scanner had a problem with shadow detail so I avoided dark slides.
Observation: the dynamic range of the potential subjects can
exceed the range of the film so composition often needs to be
adjusted.
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