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Posted On: June 3rd 2026, 07:09 pm
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Do you have a specific comp on ur bucket list & What is it? This one had been on mine for a couple years and I shot it today 2019! Swipe to see BTS —>
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This fri I took off to Sedona for a night. I had this comp in mind I missed last April when I was in Sedona because of it being wrong moon phase to get it lined up.
We had dinner at EloteCafe Saturday at 4:30 which always has a crazy line; they opened earlier than usual & we were one of the 1st to get in. You could say the stars aligned!
We drove about 15 min away to the trailhead &hiked in w/his dog, Princess Leia who was intent on catching as many lizards as she could. I misread &had thought the hike was 2 miles each way so was pleasantly surprised when we arrived so quickly.
I still had plenty of time to set up; sun had already gone down behind the mountains earlier than “sunset” but I planned to shoot this at both blue hour as well as light up the cave so I had options. Also seeing as I had never been here before I didn’t want to hike in the dark to get there. the options for setting up my camera were minimal because the walls of the cave were very steep as far back as I needed to get to be able to shoot for this IG Crop; I didn’t want to pano this Shot if I could help it. I threw my crop sensor lens ( @tokinausa 11-20) on my full frame 5DMK4 at 14mm which meant the corners would be missing data, but it wasn’t anything a little content aware fill couldn’t fix!
I shot my foregrounds at about 815 &then waited 3 more hours to shoot my sky. I had to keep climbing back up to my camera, &was shooting from a squatting position w/all of my weight pushing into my toes in my boots. Needless to say, my toes are still hurting &my muscles sore from spending so much time in this position. I ended up using a @luxlilight courtesy of @bhphoto to bounce a light off the walls of the cave; holding my arm fully extended for about 10min. I love the results so it was worth all the pain and effort!
Cave Foreground and sky 25 shots:
ISO 10000
F2.8
10 seconds
Mountain foreground 1 shot
ISO 100
F4.0
30 seconds
Lens: 11-20 @ 14mm
@canonusa 5dmk4
Processed in LR&PS
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This fri I took off to Sedona for a night. I had this comp in mind I missed last April when I was in Sedona because of it being wrong moon phase to get it lined up.
We had dinner at EloteCafe Saturday at 4:30 which always has a crazy line; they opened earlier than usual & we were one of the 1st to get in. You could say the stars aligned!
We drove about 15 min away to the trailhead &hiked in w/his dog, Princess Leia who was intent on catching as many lizards as she could. I misread &had thought the hike was 2 miles each way so was pleasantly surprised when we arrived so quickly.
I still had plenty of time to set up; sun had already gone down behind the mountains earlier than “sunset” but I planned to shoot this at both blue hour as well as light up the cave so I had options. Also seeing as I had never been here before I didn’t want to hike in the dark to get there. the options for setting up my camera were minimal because the walls of the cave were very steep as far back as I needed to get to be able to shoot for this IG Crop; I didn’t want to pano this Shot if I could help it. I threw my crop sensor lens ( @tokinausa 11-20) on my full frame 5DMK4 at 14mm which meant the corners would be missing data, but it wasn’t anything a little content aware fill couldn’t fix!
I shot my foregrounds at about 815 &then waited 3 more hours to shoot my sky. I had to keep climbing back up to my camera, &was shooting from a squatting position w/all of my weight pushing into my toes in my boots. Needless to say, my toes are still hurting &my muscles sore from spending so much time in this position. I ended up using a @luxlilight courtesy of @bhphoto to bounce a light off the walls of the cave; holding my arm fully extended for about 10min. I love the results so it was worth all the pain and effort!
Cave Foreground and sky 25 shots:
ISO 10000
F2.8
10 seconds
Mountain foreground 1 shot
ISO 100
F4.0
30 seconds
Lens: 11-20 @ 14mm
@canonusa 5dmk4
Processed in LR&PS
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