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Milkyway over Trona Pinnacles, CA

 

This composition was in my Dream List since last few years. Last year my attempt failed since I didn't know the exact spot from where I could get the Milkyway Arch. This time, I had done enough planning, study and maintained all the info together at one 'Place' on PicnPlace. When I got this chance couple weeks back, I took a 6 hour one side drive to this place. I knew exactly where to shoot from coz I had the GPS coordinates stored on PicnPlace. PicnPlace is an app available for iOS and Android cell phones.

 

About the Photograph:

This came out to be one of the most difficult shots for me. At this location, there's not enough ambiance light, but a weird light pollution too. The area is vast and it wasn't easy for me to place LLLs and light up the landscape.

So I did something differently. I took the landscape foreground pano pictures just before the moonset and Milkyway Panos after moonset. The camera fixed on the tripod ... and the tripod not moved once setup.

Details:

 

Total of 131 pictures to capture this whole landscape to my perfection.

 

Milkyway stacking done on Sequator.

Stitching the Panos, Blending them and further post processing in PS & LR.

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Uploaded on August 10, 2019