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Many years ago, I bought the Rokinon 12mm fisheye for one particular photo that it made possible. Since then, I've kept the lens with one more shot in mind: this one. I finally was successful.

I wanted to shoot the North Star from Glacier Point in the winter and have both Half Dome and the lights of Yosemite Valley in the photo. When I composed this shot, I realized that Yosemite Falls (left) and Nevada Falls (right) just fit into the frame too. I put the horizon through the middle of the frame to keep it straight. The fisheye lens projection kepts the star trails circular, whereas a wide rectilinear lens would stretch the star trails into egg shapes.

Getting to Glacier Point in the winter was a major effort, especially since it was snowing on me during the 10-hour snowshoe in and I had to break trail because no one else had recently ventured out there. I camped three nights at Glacier Point and a night at Sentinel Dome, shooting the firefall each evening. This was at least my fourth attempt at the trip. In 2020, there was no snow. In 2019, I flew from Washington DC to California, but the entrances to Yosemite were closed due to extreme snowfall. In 2018, there was no snow.

I guess I can sell the lens now? This is a stack of 20 5-minute exposures at f/4. Normally the A7R3 is pretty noisy during long exposures, but the far-below-freezing ambient temperatures kept thermal noise to a pleasant minimum.

Taken in: United States / California / Curry Village (show map)

Taken on: February 16, 2021

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Sets appears in: • Yosemite • Favorite Night Photos

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Camera: Sony ILCE-7RM3, 302 sec, ISO 1600 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony ILCE-7RM3
Lens:	----
Exposure Time:	302
ISO:	1600
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Saturation:	High
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop 22.2 (Windows)
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