Water Planet
CATEGORY: STACKED
SOCIAL IG: @victorlimaphoto
STORY:
Star Trail over Salto Santa Maria, one of the main waterfalls of the Iguaçu Falls complex in Brazil.
Photographing Iguazu Falls at night has always been one of my priority projects. For that, it was necessary to obtain a special authorization from the environmental agency responsible for national parks in Brazil. Finally, in early 2021, I got this authorization and set out to put my plan into practice.
I spent 4 days inside the Iguaçu National Park with exclusive access at night to the Falls for me and my students. The first challenge is to walk around the park at night knowing that several jaguars reside there, which are frequently seen by employees and tourists. In the area closest to the main waterfalls, the big challenge is to make long exposure images with the strong water spray from the more than 1.5 million liters per second that fall through the waterfalls. Working with exposure times longer than 30 seconds became an almost impossible task and the lens was never dry.
To assemble the Star Trail, the Sequator software was used.
EXIF:
Canon R5 / Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM
86x 16mm | f/2.8 | 30 sec | ISO 4000 (Sequator)
Water Planet
CATEGORY: STACKED
SOCIAL IG: @victorlimaphoto
STORY:
Star Trail over Salto Santa Maria, one of the main waterfalls of the Iguaçu Falls complex in Brazil.
Photographing Iguazu Falls at night has always been one of my priority projects. For that, it was necessary to obtain a special authorization from the environmental agency responsible for national parks in Brazil. Finally, in early 2021, I got this authorization and set out to put my plan into practice.
I spent 4 days inside the Iguaçu National Park with exclusive access at night to the Falls for me and my students. The first challenge is to walk around the park at night knowing that several jaguars reside there, which are frequently seen by employees and tourists. In the area closest to the main waterfalls, the big challenge is to make long exposure images with the strong water spray from the more than 1.5 million liters per second that fall through the waterfalls. Working with exposure times longer than 30 seconds became an almost impossible task and the lens was never dry.
To assemble the Star Trail, the Sequator software was used.
EXIF:
Canon R5 / Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM
86x 16mm | f/2.8 | 30 sec | ISO 4000 (Sequator)