Chasing The Milky Way
When Ed Brice and I first decided to go up to Seattle to attend Dave Morrow's Star Photography workshop I instantly began to have delusions of grandeur about the kind of photos I was going to get of the Milky Way. I played out all kinds of different scenarios for the kinds of images I planned to get up on Mt. Rainier.....
Let me be the first to tell you, DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOURSELF! Dave was a gracious host to us up on Mt. Rainier but unfortunately mother nature was not as after the sun had set her and Mt. Rainier conspired to create an epic amount of cloud cover so we couldn't see a single star that night. I still walked away from that evening and morning learning a lot from Mr. Morrow and have been attempting to apply it to my star photos and regular photos in general.
Since Ed and I were thwarted by the clouds that evening we ended up deciding to try our luck once again a couple of nights later over by Ruby Beach. Everything seemed to be lining up perfectly as the clouds had cleared out during the day, the forecast for the evening was looking good from the weather reports we read and we were all set to get some Milky Way photos. We decided that if we were going to be up all night and it had already been an exhausting trip we'd take a quick nap in the car before getting the photos. We slept for about an hour and awoke at 1am thinking we were good to go, only to find another massive layer of clouds happened to come out of nowhere in the hour we had been asleep. Instead of giving up right there we figured we'd sleep another hour and try our luck again at 2am....still a massive layer of clouds everywhere we looked.
At that time we decided to just drive and see if we could find a spot clear fo clouds...after driving about 20 or 30 miles away from the beach Ed looked out the window up to the sky and said he saw stars. We pulled off on the side of the road and started to snap away and this is one of those shots I came away with.
My apologies for the short story presented here but sometimes I find it fun to hear how a certain photo came about or the adventure behind it so I figured I'd post that here for those that also enjoy it.
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Interested in licensing a photo of mine? Please send me an e-mail at: phxrisingphotog@gmail.com
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Details:
Camera: D800
Lens: 14-24mm f/2.8
Time taken: 2:56AM
Exposure Bias: 0EV
Focal Length: 14mm
ISO: 5000
Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter Speed: 25 seconds
Edited with: Lightroom 4, Dave Morrow's Star Photography Lightrrom Presets, Photshop CS6, Tony Kuyper's Actions, and Noiseware.
Chasing The Milky Way
When Ed Brice and I first decided to go up to Seattle to attend Dave Morrow's Star Photography workshop I instantly began to have delusions of grandeur about the kind of photos I was going to get of the Milky Way. I played out all kinds of different scenarios for the kinds of images I planned to get up on Mt. Rainier.....
Let me be the first to tell you, DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOURSELF! Dave was a gracious host to us up on Mt. Rainier but unfortunately mother nature was not as after the sun had set her and Mt. Rainier conspired to create an epic amount of cloud cover so we couldn't see a single star that night. I still walked away from that evening and morning learning a lot from Mr. Morrow and have been attempting to apply it to my star photos and regular photos in general.
Since Ed and I were thwarted by the clouds that evening we ended up deciding to try our luck once again a couple of nights later over by Ruby Beach. Everything seemed to be lining up perfectly as the clouds had cleared out during the day, the forecast for the evening was looking good from the weather reports we read and we were all set to get some Milky Way photos. We decided that if we were going to be up all night and it had already been an exhausting trip we'd take a quick nap in the car before getting the photos. We slept for about an hour and awoke at 1am thinking we were good to go, only to find another massive layer of clouds happened to come out of nowhere in the hour we had been asleep. Instead of giving up right there we figured we'd sleep another hour and try our luck again at 2am....still a massive layer of clouds everywhere we looked.
At that time we decided to just drive and see if we could find a spot clear fo clouds...after driving about 20 or 30 miles away from the beach Ed looked out the window up to the sky and said he saw stars. We pulled off on the side of the road and started to snap away and this is one of those shots I came away with.
My apologies for the short story presented here but sometimes I find it fun to hear how a certain photo came about or the adventure behind it so I figured I'd post that here for those that also enjoy it.
#FlickrFriday #ToInfinityAndBeyond
Interested in licensing a photo of mine? Please send me an e-mail at: phxrisingphotog@gmail.com
Follow me on Instagram: PhxRisingPhotography
Details:
Camera: D800
Lens: 14-24mm f/2.8
Time taken: 2:56AM
Exposure Bias: 0EV
Focal Length: 14mm
ISO: 5000
Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter Speed: 25 seconds
Edited with: Lightroom 4, Dave Morrow's Star Photography Lightrrom Presets, Photshop CS6, Tony Kuyper's Actions, and Noiseware.