Milky Way - old red barn
An old Palouse barn I photographed in the beautiful, fertile farmland of the Palouse Valley of eastern Washington (see the proceeding daytime images). I did 3 other nightscape barns on this trip—all securing permission from their respective owners. Unfortunately, I had to pass on many barns because they had the curse* of a bright mercury-vapor barn/yard light near the structures, which overpowers the night sky. This old barn, in the northern section of the valley, did not.
TECHNIQUE & EXIF: A single exposure @ 2:00am with my Canon 5DM3 and a Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 @ 15mm • f/2.8, 20 sec, ISO 6400 • Add’l Low Level Lighting foreground illumination with a single filtered LED light panel
*In the 1960's the power companies heavily promoted these unshielded, blue-green lights as a "security" feature every farm should have to flood their property with light. Today, there are shielded lights that provide better color rendition (with less strain on your eyes), are much less light polluting, and more power efficient.
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More of my night photography techniques (my specialty) are available in my ebook, Milky Way NightScapes, which gives extensive details on my style of starry night landscape photography. Four chapters cover planning, scouting, forecasting star/landscape alignment, light painting, shooting techniques and post processing.
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Milky Way - old red barn
An old Palouse barn I photographed in the beautiful, fertile farmland of the Palouse Valley of eastern Washington (see the proceeding daytime images). I did 3 other nightscape barns on this trip—all securing permission from their respective owners. Unfortunately, I had to pass on many barns because they had the curse* of a bright mercury-vapor barn/yard light near the structures, which overpowers the night sky. This old barn, in the northern section of the valley, did not.
TECHNIQUE & EXIF: A single exposure @ 2:00am with my Canon 5DM3 and a Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 @ 15mm • f/2.8, 20 sec, ISO 6400 • Add’l Low Level Lighting foreground illumination with a single filtered LED light panel
*In the 1960's the power companies heavily promoted these unshielded, blue-green lights as a "security" feature every farm should have to flood their property with light. Today, there are shielded lights that provide better color rendition (with less strain on your eyes), are much less light polluting, and more power efficient.
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More of my night photography techniques (my specialty) are available in my ebook, Milky Way NightScapes, which gives extensive details on my style of starry night landscape photography. Four chapters cover planning, scouting, forecasting star/landscape alignment, light painting, shooting techniques and post processing.
Night Photo Blog | NightScaper FB Group | Instagram | Workshops