Red MX films Yosemite "Firefall" at Horsetail Falls

[Tom Lowe]

Thanks to my friend Steve Bumgardner at Yosemite, I had an opportunity over the last few days to film the annual "Firefall" spectacle at Yosemite National Park for my film "TimeScapes." During this brief period, the sun sets at such an angle in February as to backlight the waterfall at Horsetail Falls with very warm, direct sunlight from the distant horizon, making it appear almost like lava. http://www.michaelfrye.com/articles/horsetail.html

Tonight was my last night of filming it (weather is coming in), and I successfully pulled off a 2-minute, Z-axis, MX shot with my Duclos 80-200mm lens at 200mm on my camBLOCK moco system. I was very surprised that it worked so well. And somehow, I did not see ANY other movie cameras at Yosemite filming this!

I'll try to post some better pics when I get home and can get some framegrabs.

 

[paulherrin]

awesome! please keep us updated, that looks wonderful.

 

[Michael Mayda]

Beautiful! Hope to see some motion samples. I love Yosemite in the winter. Never had a chance to experience the Horsetail on fire.

Cheers,

Mike

 

[Mike Van Laanen]

Gorgeous. Can't wait to see more.

 

[Steve Wake]

Wow! You really timed it right, plus the weather and climate gods cooperated. Beats the old artificial Glacier Point firefall any day. The digital cinema evolution of Adams and Rowell. Congratulations.

 

[Christian Munoz D]

I'm sure will looks great Tom! looking forward to see some frames.

 

[C.H.Haskell]

There needs to be some published "TimeScapes" Travel guide...awesome stuff.

 

[Robert Frank]

Outstanding as usual Tom!

 

[ericyoung]

Yosemite is an amazing place - I hope to go back in the not too distant future to shoot Vernal falls, Half Dome and El Capitan.

 

[Tom Lowe]

Crazy.

 

[Robert Frank]

Crazy.

The beauty of Nature is unsurpassed. This is both surreal and spectacular.

 

[Richard Foster]

Gorgeous is the word.

 

[Tom Lowe]

The beauty of Nature is unsurpassed. This is both surreal and spectacular.

It amazes me all the time.

 

[Bruce Allen]

Beautiful, beautiful stuff, man!

For all that is good in the world, your talent and general awesomeness had better get seriously rewarded as soon as possible (although the career does seem to be doing well

Like if you had so much money thrown at you that you could build a fleet of programmable hovering robotic pods with 5 Epics in them each and send them around the world photographing its wonders. That would do it.

But you probably like the whole "chilling next to your camera while it does its thing, appreciating nature's beauty" routine

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

 

[Steven Caesare]

Amazing Tom!

-sc

 

[Mathew Marchlewski]

This looks awesome, Tom.
I made my first attempt at some simple time lapse stuff the other night, admittedly because of you.