swlove
Liquified
Fantasy Canyon is, well, fantastic. It looks like a baby born to Bisti mother and Little Finland father. One cannot shake off the thought that once, in the past, the rock was liquid, then splashed, and instantly solidified into shapes unlike any rocks I have ever seen. This is a composite with the foreground light painted by bouncing a flashlight from nearby rocks to get a softer illumination of the same color. It took many experiments to find the right angle of the reflected light that would give the two figures engaged in a heated debate the most flattering light. The background is a stack of long high ISO exposures taken with the same lens focused to infinity. It took me about an hour to clean the sky from the dreaded trails left by Elon's garbage up there. Anyone else is majorly annoyed by his swarms?
Nikon Z7, 24-70mm f4
Foreground: Single shot at f11, ISO 800, 30mm, light painted from two directions
Background: Sequator stack of ten 10 sec. exposures at f4, ISO 3200, at 30mm, shot about an hour after sunset to still have some horizon glow for contrast and a shy MW for an added element.
Liquified
Fantasy Canyon is, well, fantastic. It looks like a baby born to Bisti mother and Little Finland father. One cannot shake off the thought that once, in the past, the rock was liquid, then splashed, and instantly solidified into shapes unlike any rocks I have ever seen. This is a composite with the foreground light painted by bouncing a flashlight from nearby rocks to get a softer illumination of the same color. It took many experiments to find the right angle of the reflected light that would give the two figures engaged in a heated debate the most flattering light. The background is a stack of long high ISO exposures taken with the same lens focused to infinity. It took me about an hour to clean the sky from the dreaded trails left by Elon's garbage up there. Anyone else is majorly annoyed by his swarms?
Nikon Z7, 24-70mm f4
Foreground: Single shot at f11, ISO 800, 30mm, light painted from two directions
Background: Sequator stack of ten 10 sec. exposures at f4, ISO 3200, at 30mm, shot about an hour after sunset to still have some horizon glow for contrast and a shy MW for an added element.