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Wire Fence

While on a June, 5-day, river trip with some friends, we camped at one of the spots near the Wire Fence rapid. Of course, going on trips like this means I will bring all my photo toys with me, too!

 

The night was clear, and the moon was not out, so I decided to try to capture some Milky Way images in an area behind the camp that was not obstructed by trees.

 

I used a D750 with a 14-24mm Nikor lens (love this lens! Its the one that stay on my Nikon bodies the most!). I wanted to catch the MW arch over the rock formation in the distance. To do this, I did a panoramic at 9 positions (left to right). To reduce noise and have a sharper star image, I captured 4 frames at each position (all RAW). Then took a longer exposure for the foreground - not too much, because I wanted the foreground to be dark as I saw it, but still show some detail.

 

When I got home, I stacked each image in Sequator, and then take the produced Tiff files and stitched these using Photoshop.

 

A little adjustments in Photoshop to bring out the tones that I wanted, and the result is this image! A bonus for that night is the nice, greenish, air glow, too!

 

Anyway, there you go!

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Uploaded on January 26, 2020