Day 8 is the last day of our trip. Shooting-wise, it’s going to be a very short day. Our flight out of Las Vegas isn’t until late morning so we have just enough time to shoot sunrise before the two hour drive to the airport. We chose to shoot Dante’s View, that we had scouted out a few days earlier, as it was on our way out of the park.
The full moon would not occur until the next day but it was showing very large on the horizon as we drove to the park. Had to stop and shoot it.
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D200 with 400mm
1/5 sec @ f/14 ISO 100
Matrix, Aperture Priority, Comp -1This is a view of the valley floor as the sun rakes across the top of Dante’s View. Directly below is Badwater. For more info on Dante’s View and to see a mid-day shot with a similar composition see Day 6.
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D200 with 12-24mm
1/80 sec, 1/40 sec @ f/5 ISO 100
Matrix, Aperture Priority, Comp -1
This is a detail shot of the valley floor. The parking area for Badwater is on the bottom right. The white is salt and the blue is the reflection of the blue sky. I framed this to accentuate the lines running up out of the LRC. What attracted me to the shot was the patterns in the salt.
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D200 with 400mm
1/45 sec @ f/5.6 ISO 100
Matrix, Aperture Priority, Comp + 2/3
On the way out of the park we stopped and made this obligatory shot. I find it a bit ironic that the last shot I took in Death Valley will end up being the first slide in the slide show.Here is the shooting metadata for this image:
D200 with 24-70mm @62mm
1/1250 sec @ f/5 ISO 100
Matrix, Aperture Priority, Comp - 2/3