In regards to the last couple of comments...... These anaglyphs create an exaggerated 3D stereoscopic effect. Our stereo vision only works out to about 20-30 feet in the real world. Beyond that our brains use other cues to determine distance like what's blocking something else, relative size of familiar objects, and how hazy something looks. Everyone has had the experience of how close distantby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotechick-on I hope you don't mind me putting those pix and stuff here. ** let me know and I remedy Thanks At first I had no idea what you were talking about and then I realized you were referring to adding pix to a thread I started. Maybe that's thread etiquette I never heard. It doesn't matter to me. Post whatever you like. I'll leave the snow hiking to you guys who like it. Not my cby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
QuoteplawrenceIn regards to the horizontal scrolling, I think it's just a limitation of the forum software. I don't think it's smart enough to realize when the photo is larger than the width (in pixels) of someone's computer screen. It's not a browser limitation, because when I open your link to your photographs in a separate browser window, my browsers (Chrome, Firefox and Safari) lets me scroby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotechick-on QuoteThe Other Tom Very cool shot of half dome. At least I think it's half dome. Haven't seen it from that angle before. The left side looks a little funny so maybe not. How'd you get these...are you a pilot ? Look here: http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,21074,53675#msg-53675 (I presume you missed that) Calaveras, w/r to that ... can you put that one here tooby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quoteplawrence Hope you don't mind, but I added the size=900 parameter to your image tags, so the complete photos (without the right side of them being cropped off) will show up on the webpage. The size=900 parameter will scale the image down so it's only 900 pixels wide. Thanks for posting all these wonderful photos! That's okay. Every one of these forums is different and it's not clearby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
This is pretty much all these is. A couple are not Yosemite. I have no idea what the 2nd one is. Must be high to still have snow in September.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Here's the 2nd of the shots from the air. Again it works pretty well but not perfect. With such an oblique angle you have to refocus your eyes as you scan from bottom to top. It sure does make the peaks obvious though. It has a very good view of the area we were just talking about from 10450 to Tenaya Peak. All 3D images are now available here: http://panoramas.aa6g.org/Anaglyphs/by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Of course I agree that it's possible to make a print so big that the close-up resolution is poor. But I'm not talking about making prints like that from a single frame. I'm talking about panoramas where you often have the opposite problem. It's easy to generate images that are so huge that printing them is impractical, even at the 304.8 ppi used by the Lightjet. I'm finding with my DSLR that a 15by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotehotrod4x5 Film may be history, and I agree, that with sticthing (or using a new body like the D800) amazing detail can be obtained in digital images, but for some people, the love of the process is what drives them. Agreed. I used to love the darkroom process, and then I switched to scanning negatives, then to tricolor astrophotography and sending them out to be printed. It just became toby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
QuoteAtaim QuoteCalaveras What focal length lens are you planning on using on what camera? Half Dome is huge from North Dome and the moon will be tiny at any focal length that can cover all of Half Dome in one shot. I did a 200mm panoramic from North Dome and Half Dome was about 860 MB. My longest lens is a 500mm then 300 180 and 90 on my 4x5. Most likely I'll shoot it with the 300 or 500.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
That's an impressive picture from the top of the falls. We'd like to go to Taft Point in a couple of weeks. Hopefully Sentinel Creek will be down to a trickle and it'll be easy to cross. Last June it was a snow bound raging river.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotechick-on Pretty much what he said, and he can smack me up if I put words into his mouth, that the ridge itself has a point where you "cliff" out and to go further all the way to 10450 you would have to go back down and around... or go a different way entirely. You have it exactly right. The image below shows the routes up to 10450 that I have taken. The red line is the shorteby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I'm just not going to put a lot of money into a wide range of lenses. If I was to have a print made of that image at 150 dpi it would be 122" x 105". It would fill a wall and you'd still have view it from 6" to see all the detail. I'm not too concerned that the lens doesn't produce the highest resolution possible when viewing a tiny section at 100% on a computer display. I had tby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Yes, it's open. I have a photo taken two weeks ago of some people at the railing overlooking the upper falls. I remember snow patches on the trail last May just after Oh My Gosh Point. None this year.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Okay. You're planning a very late afternoon shot of the moon over Half Dome when Half Dome is still fully illuminated. I assume you're planning on June 2nd since June 3rd is the night of the full moon, in fact there's a partial lunar eclipse around 4 am on the 4th. If a couple days earlier would work (the moon may not rise in quite the right place) you could shoot it in the late afternoon and preby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I don't understand. If you can get up to 10450, you should be able to hike down the west side. We only had 15 lb daypacks but it wasn't that hard to get up there.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
This is sort of a hard question to answer. I don't find that hiking at elevation to be that much of an issue, especially in the 8000' range, but I'm not you. What I have trouble with is sleeping at elevation. Even with the full moon I would think you'd want good headlamps or flashlights. A lot of the hike is in the forest so the moon may not be provide that much light especially since it'll be faby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
On May 1st a friend and I hiked to Ribbon Falls. I read everything I could find here and other places on the hike and decided we should be able to take the climber's trail. The beginning of the trail is about 50' to the east of a large rock that is partially blocked by a manzanita plant. There is a cairn marking the entrance. There are also Cairns behind the rock marking an alternate entrance. Thby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotechick-onI have not been up 10450 myself... but have done most of this route. It without question is do-able: Clicky here for a route I've been up to 10450' twice and on the ridge between Tressider and 10450'. The route you show along the ridge is not possible for normal hiking. It's easy to get on the ridge using your route but as you get to the end of the elongated topo oval there's aby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
After posting the above I looked at other parts of the image and it looked sharper. Then I realized it might have to do with scaling the image during stitching. I looked at the original unaltered frame and sure enough, the image scale was much smaller. The stitched image was enlarged by 150%. I attached the same crop here from the original image and it looks much better. This is the only pan Iby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotehotrod4x5 Love the full image. What camera? Canon 450D QuoteI am wondering why the crop of the bridge isn't really sharp? 17-85mm zoom lens. It's a compromise for hiking weight and expense. 35mm is marginal. 50 - 85mm is better but still not as good as a fixed focal length lens.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
From April 19th. The original image is 860 MB, not big by Giga-Pan standards, but big enough, 30 images at a focal length of only 35mm. The bridge is a 100% crop. This is a difficult location to shoot from. I used a specially modified bracket my friend made to mount on the railing so the camera could look down without seeing the railing. I still had to hang over the railing a bit to look throughby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
In the Eighty Percent thread I posted an aerial image taken by a friend on a commercial flight from Las Vegas to Oakland. There was a request for a larger image. Turns out he had a lot more images than I knew about. I'll be working to post some of those. But first I'm posting an anaglyph of Half Dome I made from 2 successive images he took. The movement of the airplane between images allowed forby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I know I've made the mistake in the past to consider downhill as not hiking. It still is, just different. I've done a lot of day hikes in the past couple of years usually with the uphill part in the morning and back down in the afternoon. In the morning I'm fresh and air is cool. In the afternoon I'm tired and it's 20 - 30 degrees warmer. I end up sweating as much or more going downhill in the afby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
QuoteBee NICE! Any more aerial shots? B A friend of mine took this from a commercial jet last summer. The yellow line is my guess as to the approximate route of the Tioga Road to North Dome hike.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
The late afternoon image from the Sentinel Dome web cam didn't show any new snow on Half Dome. Couldn't see the high country due to clouds. We'll know tomorrow. The automated weather station in Tuolumne Meadows showed just 3". Most of it fell as rain. I'll bet they didn't get much snow on the road.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quoteplawrence Can anyone who doesn't pullover to let faster traffic pass them on mountain roads, please explain to me why they don't? What benefit they see by having cars lined up behind them? I always let other drivers by if they want to go faster, even if they are driving over the limit. Here's my take on some of the reasons. I've actually heard people say some of these things. 1) Tby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Animal kills by cars are always unfortunate but I doubt driving speed has anything to do with them. The little experience I have with animal hits in over 40 years of driving never had anything to do with speed. It's unfortunate timing. It was always a case where the animal was hiding behind a parked car or in the bushes along side the road and darted into the road with only a fraction of a secondby Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Quotehotrod4x5 Is this a joke? You guys are 100's of miles away. Nope. Widely heard in western Nevada and eastern Northern California. It was a very loud sonic boom. I don't know how big the object was. Check out the KCRA link above.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
QuoteQITNL PS - Anyone see/hear the fireball this morning? I didn't see it, but heard it up in Carson Pass this mornng - way cool. Yes. I live in the middle of Calaveras County and it rocked the house. I went outside and heard a few sputtering type sounds and then it went quiet. I didn't think to look up.by Calaveras - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion