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4 Pixel photography tips I used to capture Yosemite's Firefall

An animated gif of an illustration of mountain and silhouetted trees. The sky shows that it’s dusk. There’s an illuminated waterfall on the side of the mountain. Various people flash in and out of the image as a representation of how Magic Eraser can work

I settled on 5x-10x zoom to get beyond the crowds and see more of the mountain’s detail.

Photograph of Yosemite’s Horsetail Falls zoomed in to see the rock glowing yellow.

Magic Eraser helped me make use of photos I took without using my zoom, like this landscape shot.

Two nearly identical photos, one on the top and one on bottom. They both show a nature shot with trees in the foreground and a mountain in the back. In the top photo, there are a handful of people and signs in the image. In the bottom photo, they are gone.

Using the Shadow and Brightness sliders helped me adjust to how Firefall’s colors changed from Friday (left) to Sunday.

Two side-by-side photos of Horsetail Falls. One shows the falls glowing yellow, the other a reddish pink.

I used Motion Mode’s Long Exposure setting to capture the top of Yosemite Falls.

A photograph of a small river with snow on either side. The water is showing a blurry, motion effect.

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Not available for all camera apps or modes.

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Requires Google Photos app. May not work on all image elements.


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