Star Digger 1

On my travels I came upon this abandoned old dragline that I could just barely see out in a field. There were "no trespassing" signs at the path that would lead out to it, so I made it a mission to find and contact the land owner as I really wanted to shoot this at night. After knocking on some doors, making some calls, and doing some research online, I was finally able to contact the owner and get permission to go out and shoot this wonderful old machine under some amazingly dark skies. Many thanks to the property owners (to remain anonymous). Shot last Sunday night (8/25/2019).

This was shot with my Fuji X-T2 and Meike 25mm f/1.8 lens; (5) 8 second exposures + (2) dark frames @ ISO 6400, f/2.0, 3800K WB. Two LED panels used for LLL. Stacked in Sequator with final edits in Photoshop using a few Topaz Plugins and the 5 tone heat map actions.

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