Utah Astrophotography
Cataract Gorge
Decided to explore the Duchesne River area of the Uintas, I had never been over to that side and wanted to check out the fishing as well as Cataract Gorge for Milky Way shots. The road in is pretty damn fun, a good test for the 4runner's 4x4 capabilities, that's for sure. I thought clouds were going to spoil the whole night, I shot the foreground first waiting for them to clear. Luckily there was just enough of a gap between cloud banks to grab the sky shots before the next bank rolled in. Lots of beautiful waterfalls in the area, made for a great foreground composition.
15 exposures for this one, 10 for the foreground, 5 for the sky, all taken with my D800E and Sigma Art 50mm on a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer tracking mount. All exposures were 3.5 minutes at ISO 800, f2.5 for the sky and f2 for the foreground.
Cataract Gorge
Decided to explore the Duchesne River area of the Uintas, I had never been over to that side and wanted to check out the fishing as well as Cataract Gorge for Milky Way shots. The road in is pretty damn fun, a good test for the 4runner's 4x4 capabilities, that's for sure. I thought clouds were going to spoil the whole night, I shot the foreground first waiting for them to clear. Luckily there was just enough of a gap between cloud banks to grab the sky shots before the next bank rolled in. Lots of beautiful waterfalls in the area, made for a great foreground composition.
15 exposures for this one, 10 for the foreground, 5 for the sky, all taken with my D800E and Sigma Art 50mm on a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer tracking mount. All exposures were 3.5 minutes at ISO 800, f2.5 for the sky and f2 for the foreground.