Utah Astrophotography
Swamp Canyon Composite
This is a rare composite by me, I really had no intention to shoot here, but as I was driving down to Natural Bridge to shoot there I noticed the moon was still very high in the sky and I needed to kill some time. So I decided to stop at the Swamp Canyon pulloff and snap a couple foreground pictures with the moon shiny on the cliff tops. Later after shooting Agua Canyon and Natural Bridge I had about 15 minutes before astro twilight started so I drove back to this pulloff and snapped a few shots of the sky as astro twilight started. I thought the brightening of the eastern sky during the start of twilight accented the bright moonlit cliffs so I went ahead and put the composite together.
Shot this one with my Nikon D800E and Sigma Art 35mm on a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer 6 shots total. 3 foreground shots, 1 minute at f2 and ISO 800, 3 sky shots, 2 minutes at f2.5 and ISO 800.
Swamp Canyon Composite
This is a rare composite by me, I really had no intention to shoot here, but as I was driving down to Natural Bridge to shoot there I noticed the moon was still very high in the sky and I needed to kill some time. So I decided to stop at the Swamp Canyon pulloff and snap a couple foreground pictures with the moon shiny on the cliff tops. Later after shooting Agua Canyon and Natural Bridge I had about 15 minutes before astro twilight started so I drove back to this pulloff and snapped a few shots of the sky as astro twilight started. I thought the brightening of the eastern sky during the start of twilight accented the bright moonlit cliffs so I went ahead and put the composite together.
Shot this one with my Nikon D800E and Sigma Art 35mm on a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer 6 shots total. 3 foreground shots, 1 minute at f2 and ISO 800, 3 sky shots, 2 minutes at f2.5 and ISO 800.