Lembert Dome Photo

Photographer’s Note

View from top of Lembert Dome, Tuolemne Meadows, Yosemite.
After purchasing my 10.5 mm fisheye in SF a couple of days earlier I was having fun experimenting with the potential for fisheye landscape shots.
Starting from Tuolemne Meadows, we combined the short hike to Dog Lake with the hike to the top of Lembert Dome.

From Wikipedia:
Lembert Dome is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park in the U.S. state of California The dome soars 800 feet (240 m) above Tuolumne Meadows and the Tuolumne River and can be hiked starting at the Tioga Road in the heart of Tuolumne Meadows, 8 miles (13 km) west of the Tioga Pass Entrance to Yosemite National Park.
Lembert Dome was named for John Baptist Lembert who took up a homesteader in a section of Tuolumne Meadows in 1865.
Rock climbers can scale the face from the parking lot just off the Tioga Road, but hikers can simply walk up the back side or take the challenging steeper trek up the face starting from just east of the parking lot.

Thanks for looking!

Floydian, pauloog, Clementi, Dyerco, cherryripe, jorgi has marked this note useful

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jst1951 (117) 2009-04-13 3:48

Hi John,
very nice. excellent work and picture

Floydian (30970) 2009-04-13 3:52

Hi John,

Good to see you posting again, hope you have some more time to share your US pictures with us.
There are some parts that suffer under pp editing (the green forest in the background) but that fisheye brought you a view which we don't see that often. Not usuable in every situation, but excellent to bring a different pov in front.

Have a nice day,

Henk

Babarf (1578) 2009-04-13 3:57

Hi John,

Ohhhhh interesting, I didn't think we could have a nice landscape picture with a fisheye!!!
But Yeahhhh it works very well in fact!!!

I like that kind of Earth curvature (I'm not sure about that word...), we could think that you're photo prove the fact that the earth is spherical!!! :O))

Very well done, nice colours and sharpness!!!
I look forward to see other fisheye pictures!!!

See ya.

Fabien.

pauloog (6354) 2009-04-13 4:00

Hello John,
A fine landscape view and your fish-eye look allowed to include both the flattened tree and a wide landscape under a sculpted sky.
regards,
Paul

envisage (191) 2009-04-13 4:20

hi john,

This is an excellent capture. Very well framed and composed. I love the POV and lighting conditions.

TFS,

Sreya

dkeus31 (26104) 2009-04-13 5:27

Hi John
original the use of the fish eye for a landscape, gives a huge foreground!
regards
didier

aral (1195) 2009-04-13 7:07

Hi John,

lovely. I like the dynamics of wide angle with the hint of diagonal movement. Foreground fits nicely into the compo.

sacimar (7325) 2009-04-13 10:52

Hi John,

wow! excellent picture, I like the sky effect, it's very nice, great perspective and composition, congratulations,

Regards

Sergio

Clementi (43543) 2009-04-13 13:43

Ciao John,
contento di rivederti, spero tutto bene sei mancato per molto tempo, ma sei tornato con una foto eccezionale, molto bella la composizione e splendido angolo di natura.
Giorgio

sevy (13206) 2009-04-14 0:59

Hello John,

I remember your previous shot also in fisheye of Great Canyon, but his time you have not corrected the distortion. Is it a choice or the correction was not efficient on this one?
Very good composition with the tree on the stone in foreground and the line of rigde coupled with the clouds in far background. You have well understood how to use this kind of lens.
I borrowed one this WE to try, but it is really not easy to use and to compose a good photo with.
You will appreciate a lot your travel in Namibia. This country is interesting both for animals and landscapes. Perhaps still hot in May, but after the rain season, it could offer nice color contrast.

Yves.

Dyerco (8984) 2009-04-14 7:35

Hi John
Long time, no see. Excellent use of the wide angle. I'll bet you were only inches away from the FG juniper.
Phil

SteveH (3881) 2009-04-14 21:23

Hi John, As Henk said, good to see you posting again. I had missed your great landscapes. Interesting to see the fisheye effect but I think I would like to see a more usual WA shot. Fine composition, as usual, though, using the small bush as a focal point and introduction to the wider view. cheers, steve

cherryripe (18869) 2009-04-15 10:07

Hi John
Stunning scenery. The details of the foreground are excellent as is the contrast between the bush and the rock. Love the depth and wide-angle effect.
Regards
Nikki

jorgi (3798) 2009-04-15 10:53

Hi John :)

now this surely is fantastic surprise! After so much time to see a new post from you, well, absolutely delightful! And what a creative approach you created here. Very bold and unusual use of fish eye for such a scenery that provides most brilliant feeling of standing on the top of the world... In moments it feels like being a Little Prince with curve so stressed, with a notion of being on a little planet that needs to show all the treasures it has on such a small area. :) So refreshing and mind exercising.

My very best regards,
jeri

brandstaetter (13910) 2009-04-20 12:33

Hi John,
nice to see you again :)
warm colours in the foreground (yellow/ocre) and cold colours in the back (blue) give a lot of depth.. a psycological phenomenon. In addition I love the beautiful contrast of these colours here..
Good one, Christian