Rising Skyward
The Milky Way rising straight up behind a lone tree at White Pocket in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument of Northern Arizona.
I was with a photo workshop at this location and got to this spot before everyone else, so I took these series of shots before the lead photographers set up the light stands to light up the foreground, which is good and bad. I like how the darker foreground really makes the Milky Way shine, but I only had enough time for one 2 min exposure of the foreground before the lights were set up and changed the shot. Overall I love this location, the sky is super dark and really allows the Milky Way to pop.
12 shots at 16mm, ISO 12800, F2.8, and 15 seconds stacked in Sequator blended with one shot for the foreground at 16mm, ISO 3200, F2.8, and 122 seconds.
Rising Skyward
The Milky Way rising straight up behind a lone tree at White Pocket in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument of Northern Arizona.
I was with a photo workshop at this location and got to this spot before everyone else, so I took these series of shots before the lead photographers set up the light stands to light up the foreground, which is good and bad. I like how the darker foreground really makes the Milky Way shine, but I only had enough time for one 2 min exposure of the foreground before the lights were set up and changed the shot. Overall I love this location, the sky is super dark and really allows the Milky Way to pop.
12 shots at 16mm, ISO 12800, F2.8, and 15 seconds stacked in Sequator blended with one shot for the foreground at 16mm, ISO 3200, F2.8, and 122 seconds.