Bouldering at Night
April 28, 2010 | Category: Lighting, Nocturnal Photography, Photography
Here’s one from a late AM night of bouldering with Paul near Carson City, NV.
The shoot was a little disorganized: we showed up in the dark, the batteries were dead on our spotlight, I had never been to the spot before and Paul had only climbed there once. On top of that, it was ridiculously windy and the stands blew over a few times. But it was fun and we’ll hopefully do it again, perhaps earlier than 1am next time.
Details:
The image was captured using a Nikon D3 and a 17-35mm 2.8 lens. Two strobes with red gels were used to freeze the climber (sort of) and an LED flashlight (also red gelled) was also used to paint in the rock and background. In post-processing, the speedlights were removed and the light painted frames were combined with the strobed frame. There’s a tiny bit of motion blur from his leg moving, but it was necessary to pull in the starry background. The final exposure was 8 seconds, at f/4 and ISO 1000 (to pull in the stars). The strobes were set to rear sync.
By the way, just after this shot, the rock broke and since someone had moved the crash pad out of the shot, Paul hit pretty hard, but still landed on his feet.
Tags: bouldering, carson city, Dan Newton, daniel newton, nevada, night, photographer, Photography, rock climbing, sports, stars, washoe valley
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Tom Compton
on April 28th, 2010Dan, Nice jog, again. I love how you took an action sport scene with light painting. Nice saturation. Very dramatic.
Tom
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on April 29th, 2010nice job Dan, your light painting is my favorite man, keep it up.
Kevin
on April 29th, 2010Nice stars. I got clouds on my side
Great job tho!
Amber
on May 9th, 2010This is crazy cool seeing the climber AND the stars. Awesome.
Anthony Perez
on May 9th, 2010Absolutely love it, the stars in the background look ace, cant wait for summer so i have time to start photographing again
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Richard
on August 25th, 2010Great photo. Looks like a very nice spot for bouldering.