Anand Shivalkar
West Beach Star Trail
I found out about this place through a fellow photographer's work. It became kind of an obsession of mine because of its dilapidated bridge located by the sea. Soon after, I visited this place on my bicycle and I fell in love with it because one, the location and the placement of the bridge were every photographer's wet dream and two, this place just had too much potential. So I set the date to the next new moon which was on the morning of the 23rd, but as the day came close weather forecast said that the morning of the 23rd would be cloudy with chances of rains and same for the 22nd, 24th and 25th which only gave me a slim window of opportunity on the morning of the 21st. So, on the night of the 20th, I took the last commuter rail to Rockport, got down at Beverly farms, walked in the center of the dark streets clutching to my cell phone lamp as if it were the light of Earendil, suddenly starting to see the point of believing in a higher power, and finally trespassing onto the private beach. I was greeted with the majestic view of the Milky way. After ticking an item off my bucket list by clicking the Milky Way I finally got to work to make this shot. I had a similar composition in my mind to shoot with the bridge, the star trail and the sunrise. I set the intervalometer to take 250 pictures before the moon rise, of which 180 I used to make the star trail below. When sun started to rise, it started to fill the sky with multitudes of colours, I took a few different shots to have more options.
After spending about 6-7 hours processing the data, here’s my final result.
This was my most ambitious composition and certainly amongst the most adventurous one. This is my best picture yet. I hope you all like it.. As always comments appreciated :)
Gear used : D7000, Tokina 11-20mm f2.8, Zomei 10 – stop ND filter, Benro BH-0 tripod.
Software used : Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Google’s Nik Collection, StarStax, PhotoPills.
West Beach Star Trail
I found out about this place through a fellow photographer's work. It became kind of an obsession of mine because of its dilapidated bridge located by the sea. Soon after, I visited this place on my bicycle and I fell in love with it because one, the location and the placement of the bridge were every photographer's wet dream and two, this place just had too much potential. So I set the date to the next new moon which was on the morning of the 23rd, but as the day came close weather forecast said that the morning of the 23rd would be cloudy with chances of rains and same for the 22nd, 24th and 25th which only gave me a slim window of opportunity on the morning of the 21st. So, on the night of the 20th, I took the last commuter rail to Rockport, got down at Beverly farms, walked in the center of the dark streets clutching to my cell phone lamp as if it were the light of Earendil, suddenly starting to see the point of believing in a higher power, and finally trespassing onto the private beach. I was greeted with the majestic view of the Milky way. After ticking an item off my bucket list by clicking the Milky Way I finally got to work to make this shot. I had a similar composition in my mind to shoot with the bridge, the star trail and the sunrise. I set the intervalometer to take 250 pictures before the moon rise, of which 180 I used to make the star trail below. When sun started to rise, it started to fill the sky with multitudes of colours, I took a few different shots to have more options.
After spending about 6-7 hours processing the data, here’s my final result.
This was my most ambitious composition and certainly amongst the most adventurous one. This is my best picture yet. I hope you all like it.. As always comments appreciated :)
Gear used : D7000, Tokina 11-20mm f2.8, Zomei 10 – stop ND filter, Benro BH-0 tripod.
Software used : Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, Google’s Nik Collection, StarStax, PhotoPills.