“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.” ― Eudora Welty
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Composite image:
Sky- Nikon D300s| 17mm| f90 secs| f/5.6| ISO 400 52 frames stacked in Photoshop
Foreground-Nikon D810|15 secs.|20mm| f/2.2| ISO 2000
I lit up the gazebo with 14 little tea lights. All the elements were blended in Photoshop CC 22.4.2
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…you might never touch them but if you follow them, they will take you to your destiny.”~anon
This is a 19 frame composited image. We had a fairly clear night the first night of my Wild Mustangs trip so I set up outside my tent to photograph the stars.
Funny story. I was doing my test shot and my frame came out completely black…set up another one same damn thing! Now, I’m mumbling to myself and asking myself why is it all black, my friend Dan who also went on the trip said from his tent,” you left the lens cap on”. Doh!!
Connie another camper was chuckling in her tent. It happens even to the ole timer’s.
I cleaned up several airplane trails that were in the frames, but I was tickled to see I caught a Shooting Star on film down near the mountain ridge. See it?
I hope you all have a lovely week-end!
Nikon D810| Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G| SanDisk Digital Film| Stacked in PS CC 2018
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I made this image last week-end. Unfortunately, I’ve was pretty busy last week and didn’t get to out much, or have to much time to work on images.
I added +1 EV in post development to open up the road a bit more. I thought I’d play and try converting this image to Black & White for this week’s Monochrome Madness 2. I like it, but I do like the color version more. I’ll share it in a future post.
I hope you drop by Leanne Cole’s site to view the other work that was shared this week. Click here!
Nikon Df| AF-D Nikkor 17-35mm @ 22mm| 18 frames ea. 30s| ISO 400| Tripod| Manual Priority| CS6 & Silver Efex Pro 2
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A friend and I went south to the town of Morgan Hill about 30 mins. from me to Henry Coe State Park to shoot the stars for Star Trails, and we hoped for a nice sunset too.
Arriving early we scouted the area and found a couple of really beautiful oak trees that we thought would make a lovely foreground to our star trail photographs.
We set up camp which for me is a folding chair, tripod, and camera gear then waited for the sun to set.
The sunset was so golden, and even with my LB ColorCombo Polarizer and SinghRay2 stop soft edge Grad ND filter the sun was hot, and I had lots of sun flare. I actually think it came out cool looking in this photo.
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After this we moved across to the opposite side of this hill to set up for the Moon Rise. The colors on this side of the valley were so much prettier
than the sunset.
I loved the bands of red and blue. One of the beautiful oaks made for a lovely foreground.
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After the moon rise I moved locations to set up and start my test shots for my star trail sequence. Here’s the second test shot.
I was lining up the foreground and Polaris, the North Star.
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We weren’t alone up there last night. There was also an Astronomer hobbyist taking photos of the stars and nebulae with his star tracking gear, and telescope mounted to his camera. It was such a wonderful evening chatting with him and looking through his large telescope at Jupiter, Venus, and the Moon.
I’m still working on my Star Trail photograph. I hope to post it tomorrow.
Nikon D300s
Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8AF-S
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