rgarner42
Moonlight over Wied Il-Mielah Arch, Gozo, Malta
First Attempt at Star Trails.
Not bad.
- Technically could be improved, as I found focusing on the arch for the foreground exposure difficult in the dark and with Fuji's fly by wire focusing system on the 10-24mm.
- Also I had to crop a portion of the sky out as because I was using a ultra wide angle lens the rock from the above me was entering into the shot. This could only be avoided if I placed myself on area where there was no fence between me and a 20/30 foot drop so I accepted I'd have to crop a bit.
- If possible I would have stayed a bit longer, another half hour would have been nice to accentuate the trails more and to have more moonlight over the arch.
- I would have liked to take a similar image at Gozo's Azure Window, but unfortunately storms a number of years ago caused the arch to collapse but this smaller (but still pretty big) sea arch made a great subject.
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However, all in all I'm pretty happy with this. And was surprised by how little editing was required, beyond stacking the exposures I've barely made any changes.
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Stack of around 150 images (40 second exposures, at F4, iso 3200) taken over a period of around 2 hours.
Foreground arch composited in from a longer exposure iso 200 at around 8 minutes.
Moonlight over Wied Il-Mielah Arch, Gozo, Malta
First Attempt at Star Trails.
Not bad.
- Technically could be improved, as I found focusing on the arch for the foreground exposure difficult in the dark and with Fuji's fly by wire focusing system on the 10-24mm.
- Also I had to crop a portion of the sky out as because I was using a ultra wide angle lens the rock from the above me was entering into the shot. This could only be avoided if I placed myself on area where there was no fence between me and a 20/30 foot drop so I accepted I'd have to crop a bit.
- If possible I would have stayed a bit longer, another half hour would have been nice to accentuate the trails more and to have more moonlight over the arch.
- I would have liked to take a similar image at Gozo's Azure Window, but unfortunately storms a number of years ago caused the arch to collapse but this smaller (but still pretty big) sea arch made a great subject.
.
However, all in all I'm pretty happy with this. And was surprised by how little editing was required, beyond stacking the exposures I've barely made any changes.
.
.
.
Stack of around 150 images (40 second exposures, at F4, iso 3200) taken over a period of around 2 hours.
Foreground arch composited in from a longer exposure iso 200 at around 8 minutes.