![]() I decided to use their light show to my benefit and get the arches lit. But as a theme of this video – when life gives you lemons make lemonade. They hooked the entire place for 1½ hour doing light painting, which kinda pissed all other photographers off who were there. But when we had waited for an hour after sunset for the darkness to come a huge Japanese photography workshop came by. I did decide to go for some star trails instead though. As with the other locations during the night the moon lit up the entire area making astrophotography impossible. Even with my 16mm, I had to make panoramas. If you want to capture any photos underneath the arches be sure to bring an ultra wide angle. You can spice it up a bit and find some bushes or leading lines as foregrounds. Just google search Double Arches and the first 50 or so pictures are from that exact location. The most obvious viewpoint is also the one you get straight in front of it. It’s not easy to capture double arches and to get a great scale of it so be sure to add that human element. It’s located close to the parking lot in an area with a lot of other arches. And since I couldn’t do any astrophotography there because of the moon I decided to go for a composite when I came home.Įven though Delicate Arch is probably the most iconic and famous I’d say that I find Double Arches to be at least as fascinating – if not more. In December when we were there the light from the sunrise backlits the arch, so you’ll have to take that into consideration. The sunrise at Delicate Arch delivered some beautiful clouds lit by the rising sun and I found some great compositions with leading lines. The sunrises, on the other hand, was another story. So for the three sunsets, we had in the park I completely missed being at the right place at the right time. It is next to nearly impossible to predict if you actually get a good sunset and if you should go for backlit or frontlit and with such big elements in your photos you can’t just run to the other side of it if the light changes. ![]() Many of the arches and other structures in Arches National Park are actually mainly known for being photographed in the light from the rising or setting sun, where the orange light lightens up the orange rock, which makes for some outstanding red colors. ![]() This should give you enough time to scout the area and capture potential clouds lit by the rising sun before sunrise. I’d say calculate with 75minutes from the trailhead. If you go in the dark be sure to bring a headlamp. The trail is marked, but it’s still hard to see the path in the dark. We went for a sunrise and making your way to Delicate Arch in the dark is a bit hard, when you don’t know the trail, so I’ll recommend making the hike in daylight first. Also during high season bring enough water and a cap to cover for the sun on your way back if you go for a sunrise. You’ll most likely not be alone either in high season, but we actually had the entire area to our selves for the most part besides a few other tourists. This lonely arch standing on the edge of the mountain rim makes for some amazing photographs, but this location has of cause been photographed in almost all possible scenarios, so it’s unlikely you’ll make anything original here. If I kept the moon in shadow for most of the exposure and let the rotation of the Earth reveal the Moon from behind the arch for only the very, very last part of the exposure I could get a balanced picture with a moonburst and details in the shadows without using artificial light or stitch multiple exposures together.ĭelicate Arch is probably the most famous and iconic arch in the world and not without reason. So while there, I came up with a solution. And all this considered the moon would still be way too bright. ![]() This meant I’d have to make an even longer exposure to get any details in the shadows. On top of this, you’ll have to photograph with a fairly small aperture to get that star effect from the moon, which is counterintuitive to normal night photography, where you want to let in as much light as possible. You’ll end up completely overexposing the moon and moonburst and get weird flares in the picture if you expose for the shadows, but if you expose for the highlights, which is the moon you’ll end up with a very dark silhouetted arch on a very dark night sky. You see the moon is actually very bright relative to the foreground. ![]() This is a shot which is very hard to capture in one exposure, but I figured it should be possible to get a semi-light balanced picture. But when life gives you lemons… I had the moon and at the right time of the night, it would be in the perfect direction to make a moonburst. I couldn’t get a golden hour picture and a sunburst behind the arch was impossible too at this time of year. I knew though that I did want at least one good picture from Landscape Arch. ![]()
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