Utah Astrophotography
Salt Flats pano, take 2
A second panorama taken from the Bonneville Salt Flats, this time with my Nikon D600 and Rokinon 24mm f1.4 lens on the iOptron Skytracker mount. I wanted to compare the combinations to see if I could get similar quality from the D7000 and Tokina lens on the tracking mount. It's a lot easier to stitch together the super wide images from the Tokina, but the sharpness isn't as good.
Also got photobombed by the fuzz! While I was out on the salt flats taking pictures a cop flipped on his lights, I thought he had pulled someone over. After a few minutes he started backing up, then pulling forward, then he drove down a ways and drove back, very strange stuff. The next morning as I drove back and passed the area there was a car in the median stuck in the mud, bumper tore off and laying on the ground, with a few cops and a tow-truck sitting around. Someone either dozed off at the wheel or had a little too much fun in Wendover...luckily if you drive off the road it's basically completely flat for hundreds of yards (or miles depending which way you go) and the area around the highway is either salt or mud.
At first I was kinda pissed because his bright lights were going to be annoying to edit, but I got a few shots when he turned them off. I decided the story was kind of funny so I used one for this picture with his lights on.
Salt Flats pano, take 2
A second panorama taken from the Bonneville Salt Flats, this time with my Nikon D600 and Rokinon 24mm f1.4 lens on the iOptron Skytracker mount. I wanted to compare the combinations to see if I could get similar quality from the D7000 and Tokina lens on the tracking mount. It's a lot easier to stitch together the super wide images from the Tokina, but the sharpness isn't as good.
Also got photobombed by the fuzz! While I was out on the salt flats taking pictures a cop flipped on his lights, I thought he had pulled someone over. After a few minutes he started backing up, then pulling forward, then he drove down a ways and drove back, very strange stuff. The next morning as I drove back and passed the area there was a car in the median stuck in the mud, bumper tore off and laying on the ground, with a few cops and a tow-truck sitting around. Someone either dozed off at the wheel or had a little too much fun in Wendover...luckily if you drive off the road it's basically completely flat for hundreds of yards (or miles depending which way you go) and the area around the highway is either salt or mud.
At first I was kinda pissed because his bright lights were going to be annoying to edit, but I got a few shots when he turned them off. I decided the story was kind of funny so I used one for this picture with his lights on.