Twilight Alpenglow Over the Big Horn Mountains
“Twilight Alpenglow over the Big Horn Mountains” was taken well into Nautical Twilight. (Do you know your 3 twilights?) Bear in mind I consider anything sky in the morning BEFORE the sun crosses the horizon Night and in the evening, once the sun slips behind the horizon, it’s night too….
This sky started out Bright Orange at sunset with the same clouds but slowly faded to the longer wave length light red…finally to black with no stars because enough overcast to preclude/veil stars in the frame. This 5 second time exposure highlights cloud shadows and the still glowing atmospheric ice over the Mountains.
Those 13000 feet high hills are 130 miles from my Camera which is sitting on a 4000 foot in elevation ridge almost 2 full Wyoming counties east.
Photographers notes. Unless your really steady (on xanax or something), you need a tripod for any exposure longer than about 1/15th second exposure. No star tracking required here so just a tripod will do.
Gear.. Sony Alpha 7R4, Canon 800mm Telephoto. Tripod. Big Tall Hill top in Montana looking across the border into Wyoming.
Location: Bliss DInosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands (Wyotana)
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Twilight Alpenglow Over the Big Horn Mountains
“Twilight Alpenglow over the Big Horn Mountains” was taken well into Nautical Twilight. (Do you know your 3 twilights?) Bear in mind I consider anything sky in the morning BEFORE the sun crosses the horizon Night and in the evening, once the sun slips behind the horizon, it’s night too….
This sky started out Bright Orange at sunset with the same clouds but slowly faded to the longer wave length light red…finally to black with no stars because enough overcast to preclude/veil stars in the frame. This 5 second time exposure highlights cloud shadows and the still glowing atmospheric ice over the Mountains.
Those 13000 feet high hills are 130 miles from my Camera which is sitting on a 4000 foot in elevation ridge almost 2 full Wyoming counties east.
Photographers notes. Unless your really steady (on xanax or something), you need a tripod for any exposure longer than about 1/15th second exposure. No star tracking required here so just a tripod will do.
Gear.. Sony Alpha 7R4, Canon 800mm Telephoto. Tripod. Big Tall Hill top in Montana looking across the border into Wyoming.
Location: Bliss DInosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands (Wyotana)
blissphotographics.com/twilight-alpenglow-over-the-big-ho...