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05-17-2013

Midnight Valley View | Yosemite National Park

Valley View is one of my favorite locations to visit at Yosemite National Park. Every time I return to the famous location, I’m treated with a totally different scene from snow covered trees after a late winter storm, to early spring mega-storm clouds to a perfect crisp blue summer sky. Lately, I’ve been on an astro-photography kick so I decided to photograph the Valley View. It was a little unnerving standing so close to the rumbling Merced river in the pitch black of night. My fears quickly disappeared after my eyes adjusted and I noticed the beams of light from the mountain climbers high on top of three brothers mountains.

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” -John Muir

Midnight Valley View | Yosemite National Park

midnight valley view yosemite national park

Photo Details

Here are behind scenes details for my fellow curious photographers:

  • Captured with Canon 5D Mark III and Rokinon 14mm 2.8 lens
  • 30 second exposure at f2.8 and ISO 6400
  • RAW file processed in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop CS6
  • Used Star Walk app for IOS to determine when and where Milky Way would be viewable
  • And my trusty 99 cent hot shoe bubble level:)

Kenneth Snyder on Google+

Posted inBlog,Daily Photo,Travel
05-17-2013

Timeless Tenaya | Yosemite National Park

Yosemite National Park will always be natures cathedral to me. Every time I leave the park feeling revived and lighthearted even though I typically push my body to its limits soaking up every moment I can in the majestic land. On this visit, I returned to Tenaya Lake to capture a time-lapse of the milky way moving across the horizon. This is one of my favorite photos from the time-lapse sequence that I’ll be sharing soon.

The scene reminded me of a great quote:

“We travel the milky way together. Trees and men” -John Muir

Timeless Tenaya | Yosemite National Park, California Timeless Tenaya Lake

Photo Details

Here are behind scenes details for my fellow curious photographers:

  • Captured with Canon 5D Mark III and Rokinon 14mm 2.8 lens
  • 20 second exposure at f2.8 and ISO 4000
  • RAW file processed in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop CS6
  • Used Star Walk app for IOS to determine when and where Milky Way would be viewable
  • And my trusty 99 cent hot shoe bubble level:)

Kenneth Snyder on Google+

Posted inBlog,Daily Photo,Travel
05-06-2013

Limited Edition Fine Art Print of the Month – May 2013

Unified Photography is excited to announce our new exclusive Limited Edition Fine Art Print of the Month series by Kenneth Snyder. Each photo is selected by Kenneth Snyder and printed on the finest materials available. Our May 2013 selection is called “Pure Michigan Summer Sunset” and available in a 16″x24″ print on pearl white fine art paper. We also continue to offer fine art prints for any piece in our Travel and Sleeping Bear Dunes Collections.

Pure Michigan Summer Sunset

This one was photographed from the beautiful shores of Sleeping Bear Dunes Michigan on a warm summer night with the sun setting on the south end of South Manitou Island.
Unified Photography: Sleeping Bear Dunes Michigan Pictures &emdash; Pure Michigan Summer Sunset





Kenneth Snyder on Google+

Posted inBlog,Michigan Travel Photography,Print of the Month,Travel