Fall star trails over El Capitan, November 2012
Night photography of fall colors provides calm conditions and even lighting, plus the addition of starry skies.
I’ve captured long exposures of colorful fall leaves floating down streams in the past, but the concept of combining them with star trails occurred to me in 2012. When I arrived in Yosemite to find clear, starry skies, I had a lot of fun capturing leaves drifting down the Merced River. Conditions couldn’t have been more perfect. There was wind upon arrival during the day to knock the leaves out of the trees, but then it calmed down for nice sky reflections as I shot.
I lead workshops to pursue these types of shots in Yosemite… check my Yosemite schedule for details!
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Beautiful +Jeff Sullivan 🙂
What are your camera settings when you do these photos?
Well done
Absolutely stunning, great work!
Nice star trails!
I'm tempted to dribble on about how good the composition and the tones are..blah blah blah….naaaa…this is just plain frikkin' cool! Great shot 🙂
Excellent! what are those 45 degree lines running from the trees to the top of the cliff – Power Lines?
I think those are airplane trails +Doug Alder
NiCe 🙂
Absolutely agree with +Paul whittingham brilliantly seen
+Sunny Wu Ah that makes sense
Nice Shot
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What is the stuff in the sky? If it is birds then they are not clear enough. And if it is snow, the shot is disproportional.
Terrific image… Great concept and execution.
Really nice!
Superbe
It's BEAUTIFUL!
I wish i could be there too … What an awesome view
Oh my +Jeff Sullivan !! This is stunning!! I love the star trails and the reflections of them are even more amazing!!
Q belleza
awesome pitcure !! nice
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very beautiful! have you heard of National geographic photo compatition 2013 you should enter it in.
Nice shot
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good one
Awesome shot. Surprised not to see headlamp trails on El Cap…
This is an amazing photograph!
That's the prettiest pic I've ever seen
perfect exposure, with low noise. WOW!!!
Did you fuse the photos?
I never knew places like this existed…have to go there soon..
Your concept turned into a unique shot. Love it!
Night photography with lines formed via star paths over the course of the night?
so amazing
OMG take me tare
Beautiful.
+Jeff Sullivan Nice capture brother…
Its so amazing..
Yosemite is honestly one of the places in the world where no one can deny that magic really exists!
That is true beauty
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I can dig it.
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lovely
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perfect beauty of nature..
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so cool! ^_^
It looks like painting
Beautiful!
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This is a great.picture
Beautiful!
Nice pic . Which camera you use?
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The camera settings change every night as the moon changes in phase and intensity +Melissa Jane Ferrell, but on this night exposures were 30 seconds at f/4, ISO 2500. I combined about 30 of them to get this image.
Creating Star Trails Images
http://activesole.blogspot.com/2011/05/creating-star-trail-images.html
I shot this with a Canon 5D Mark III and a 14mm lens +mirna houeiss , but any DSLR can take pictures like this.
+Arianna Murdocca This image covers 15 minutes of time, so those lines in the sky record how the stars move in the sky as the earth rotates, surrounded by them.
Nice shot
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Amazing….scene
very excellant picture….
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Thank You !
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pěkné…
Beautiful! +Jeff Sullivan
breathless scene
very nice shot indeed…..perfect…..
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Beautiful !
Yes it's beautiful 🙂
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This is what heaven looks like after we are dead and gone. Wish I could go there again
That's a nice place.
Ann have u been to heaven already?
and in fact thats what earth looked like in the begining before animals were created,and at ps.37;11 it says the meek will inherit the earth and find abundance of peace…29 says they will live there forever…..i want to be there!!!!!
very nice +Jeff Sullivan
Nice
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lovely but hey where is dis freakin place ??????????
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BEUTIFULL YAR!!!
What a beautiful place.
ohh I' M IN THE THIS PLACES
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Wonderful shot!
beautiful……. 🙂
Absolutely stunning !
Verry much…
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I haven't seen this since I was a teenager. Thank you for the memory!
Love your photography.Never been to Yosemite. would love to go.
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lovely
beautiful sky
WOW is this why we were given Sight. I pray for the day I'm blessed with a visit before my life ends..
La villá bella[very very beautiful.top one}
nice shot….
هلا
Hi hellow…
spectacular….
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Entrancing! Great depth and composition! I want to go to there…
awesome scenory cool!!
NICE
Cool pic
Amazing
stunning…
Im in photography and i would love to know how you work your magic through the camera.
WONDERFUL!!!!!!
great photo jeff
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wounderful
So nice
Me gusta el foto
Stunning +Jeff Sullivan Congrats on reaching the 1Million milestone as well..Well deserved.
so beautiful
Thanks +Giuseppe Basile!
Stunning and a very good photographer indeed 🙂
that's right
Hello
beautiful
+L'lori Holland This blog post describes how I make these star trails images:
Creating Star Trails Images
http://activesole.blogspot.com/2011/05/creating-star-trail-images.html
On a full moon night like this, you get the landscape illuminated, and less expensive cameras can be used because I only needed f/4 or f/5 and ISO 2000 or 2500. Although an individual photo may have a lot of noise at that ISO setting, when you combine many images in the star trails software, nearly all of the noise disappears. That's one of the great things about star trails processing… it makes night photography accessible to more photographers.
Stunning, amazing shot!
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Nice n lovely
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Good nice…
Great photo and work! +Jeff Sullivan
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Your photos are amazing, its hard to believe all of that beauty's in this world. You have a great eye to capture God's heart and mine. Thank You.
Very beautidul ,beathtaken,, magical
Good place,very beautiful.
I like it….!
Thank you everyone! We'll have a G+ hangout on night photography tonight 7PM PDT. The link will be circulated on the +Landscape Photography Show page shortly before the show.