{"id":695,"date":"2009-10-29T06:31:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T14:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/29\/the-making-of-a-photograph-part-1-selection\/"},"modified":"2018-09-09T19:02:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T03:02:38","slug":"the-making-of-a-photograph-part-1-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/29\/the-making-of-a-photograph-part-1-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Making of a Photograph Part 1 – Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent a night in Yosemite Valley a few weeks ago.\u00a0 See 24 Hours in Yosemite<\/a>.\u00a0 It was great to be back; no, it was fantastic to be back.\u00a0 Both sunset and the following sunrise were shot from Tunnel View, the parking area just as you emerge from the tunnel on state highway 41.\u00a0 You can always count on company, especially for sunset.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m working on one of the photographs taken there that weekend.\u00a0 But before showing you the image, let\u2019s start with some comments about the light.\u00a0 Sunset was a near cloudless sky.\u00a0 The only clouds were a few cotton balls floating over Half Dome.\u00a0 The rest of the sky was clear.\u00a0 As the sun set the shadows filled the valley, eventually claiming to the tops of the cliff faces.\u00a0 But as they did beautiful warm light embraced the the mighty granite but gradually gave way to approaching night.<\/p>\n

The morning was quite the opposite.\u00a0 During the night the anticipated storm rolled in and rain started to fall.\u00a0 The valley was now full of clouds swirling about, shrouding the eternal granite.\u00a0 And snow flurries came, keeping all of us at Tunnel View on our toes, protecting our camera gear and warming our fingers.<\/p>\n

It was an image from the morning shoot that I selected to work on.\u00a0 There were long periods of waiting.\u00a0 The snow flurries passed over us and moved on up the valley obscuring most or all of it.\u00a0 Then they would pass but the clouds wouldn\u2019t be in the right positions.\u00a0 Eventually a wonderful, exciting light came shortly after sunrise, imparting a very faint warm cast to some of the clouds.\u00a0 The rest of the scene was cool, both in light quality and air temperature.<\/p>\n

\"Yosemite_1\"<\/a>This is the image I started from as it appears unaltered in Lightroom.\u00a0 I selected it because of the sense of mystery created by the clouds that just give us glimpses of Bridle Vail Falls and the Cathedral Spires on the right and towering El Capitan on the left.\u00a0 The hints of the beautiful warm hues in the clouds that I would try to pull from the image are present but not apparent in this image.\u00a0 Rather, we see the predominantly cool mood.<\/p>\n

Over the next several posts I\u2019ll take you through the process of trying to recreate what I saw and felt that morning as well as what I discovered in this image.\u00a0 There were some wonderful surprises in store.\u00a0 So stay tuned.<\/p>\n

The journey continues \u2013 read part 2.<\/a><\/p>\n

To see more of my photographs click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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I spent a night in Yosemite Valley a few weeks ago.\u00a0 See 24 Hours in Yosemite.\u00a0 It was great to be back; no, it was fantastic to be back.\u00a0 Both sunset and the following sunrise were shot from Tunnel View, the parking area just as you emerge from the tunnel on state highway 41.\u00a0 You … Continue reading “The Making of a Photograph Part 1 – Selection”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[22,32,15,13,10,231,43,262],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-how-to-articles","category-journal","tag-autumn","tag-california","tag-national-park","tag-photography","tag-ralph-nordstrom","tag-sierra-nevada","tag-sunrise","tag-yosemite"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Nl7-bd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3920,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/3920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}