Utah Astrophotography
Redfish Lake Milky Way
Recently the original version of this shot had popped up on my "memories" timeline photos and it dawned on me how horribly over-edited I had made it. So I figured I'd take some time over the last week and breathe some new life into an older photo.
It's also been a bit of a reflection year, earlier this year my mom passed away and thanks to a huge number of serious wildfires burning in Idaho around our cabin we weren't able to make it up there, which was very hard on us. It just seems like we've been saying "it's not fair" a lot this year.
So with an eye towards winter and hopefully a better 2025 I went back through the full editing process with this shot, implementing some new techniques via PixInsight and not going so crazy with the colors and contrast. This was shot with a Nikon Z7 and 85mmS lens on a Star Adventurer tracking mount. I decided to not include the reflection shots because it felt like the water motion made the reflection seem too dramatically different than the sky which detracted from the overall photo.
Redfish Lake Milky Way
Recently the original version of this shot had popped up on my "memories" timeline photos and it dawned on me how horribly over-edited I had made it. So I figured I'd take some time over the last week and breathe some new life into an older photo.
It's also been a bit of a reflection year, earlier this year my mom passed away and thanks to a huge number of serious wildfires burning in Idaho around our cabin we weren't able to make it up there, which was very hard on us. It just seems like we've been saying "it's not fair" a lot this year.
So with an eye towards winter and hopefully a better 2025 I went back through the full editing process with this shot, implementing some new techniques via PixInsight and not going so crazy with the colors and contrast. This was shot with a Nikon Z7 and 85mmS lens on a Star Adventurer tracking mount. I decided to not include the reflection shots because it felt like the water motion made the reflection seem too dramatically different than the sky which detracted from the overall photo.