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13 Mile Milky Way
I have been out for the last nine days on a roadtrip through the southwest in my new photo mobile, focusing on primarily the San Juan River region.
In order to increase the number of possible locations that I can photograph, I finally took the plunge and purchased a vehicle for just that purpose. It's no jeep wrangler but it has All Wheel Drive and locking differentials so it will allow better access to the many dirt roads I have had to pass up on in the past while in the prius.
After seeing millions of photos from this spot, I decided to give it my own twist so during my fourth night out, Wayne Pinkston and I finished up a few in the Valley of the Gods and where on our way to Mexican Hat down highway 163, so we stopped off to grabbed a few more while the traffic was light and the Milky Way would still be visible in the scene.
This is the famous scene from "Forest Gump" at Mile Marker 13 where "Forest decides he's had enough and turns to go home. Taken at around 4am so the traffic was light, but a couple minutes in a big rig came hauling down the highway towards us. I continued shooting until he was a few hundred yards away then grabbed my camera and ran off the road. Since I didn't have a permit to shoot the car in the middle of the road and my car was filthy from the 50 miles of dirt roads I had driven that week I thought decided It would be safer to take the road shot and combine it with a photo I had taken the day after I had purchased the car up behind mount baldy at sunset.
All the light in this scene is in camera!!! The light in the background is real, the lens flare is real, the flare coming through the window of the car is real, no special lighting effects of any sort have been added to this photo and if you look close you can even see the background through the windows of the car and stars reflecting there too. (The last two were layering effects.
We shot until the end of twilight then we too had had enough and turned to go home. Hope you like it!!! :)
Thanks for taking the time to take a look at my photos, and as always, your views, comments, faves, and support are greatly appreciated!!
Have a great day my friends!! :)
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Copyright 2017©Eric Gail
13 Mile Milky Way
I have been out for the last nine days on a roadtrip through the southwest in my new photo mobile, focusing on primarily the San Juan River region.
In order to increase the number of possible locations that I can photograph, I finally took the plunge and purchased a vehicle for just that purpose. It's no jeep wrangler but it has All Wheel Drive and locking differentials so it will allow better access to the many dirt roads I have had to pass up on in the past while in the prius.
After seeing millions of photos from this spot, I decided to give it my own twist so during my fourth night out, Wayne Pinkston and I finished up a few in the Valley of the Gods and where on our way to Mexican Hat down highway 163, so we stopped off to grabbed a few more while the traffic was light and the Milky Way would still be visible in the scene.
This is the famous scene from "Forest Gump" at Mile Marker 13 where "Forest decides he's had enough and turns to go home. Taken at around 4am so the traffic was light, but a couple minutes in a big rig came hauling down the highway towards us. I continued shooting until he was a few hundred yards away then grabbed my camera and ran off the road. Since I didn't have a permit to shoot the car in the middle of the road and my car was filthy from the 50 miles of dirt roads I had driven that week I thought decided It would be safer to take the road shot and combine it with a photo I had taken the day after I had purchased the car up behind mount baldy at sunset.
All the light in this scene is in camera!!! The light in the background is real, the lens flare is real, the flare coming through the window of the car is real, no special lighting effects of any sort have been added to this photo and if you look close you can even see the background through the windows of the car and stars reflecting there too. (The last two were layering effects.
We shot until the end of twilight then we too had had enough and turned to go home. Hope you like it!!! :)
Thanks for taking the time to take a look at my photos, and as always, your views, comments, faves, and support are greatly appreciated!!
Have a great day my friends!! :)
Please do me a favor and follow me on my other social sites found below:
500px | Facebook | Flickr | Google+ | Instagram | Youtube
Copyright 2017©Eric Gail