Mount Crested Butte Among the Stars
For those who travel to Mount Crested Butte for skiing or to Crested Butte for the Wildflower Festival, bicycling, hiking or photography, the mountain's shape and lines are familiar and distinctive.
I intended that the mountain only be lit by starlight, but the ski area keeps lights on all night--note the facilities at the base and also high on the mountain. The western side of the top of the mountain is lit by the lights of town.
Crested Butte is at 8,909 feet in elevation, but the peak of the mountain is at 12,162 feet. Nevertheless, the mountain is dwarfed by our galaxy, the Milky Way, which is a hundred thousand light years across and is composed by one hundred billion stars, all rotating around a black hole at the very center.
Without moving the tripod, 6 shots were taken of the landscape (f 2.8, ISO 5000, 205 sec) and 26 shots were taken of the stars (f 2.8, ISO 5000, 13 sec). Landscape shots were stacked or blended in Photoshop to a single composite. Star shots were rotated in StarryLandscapeStacker so that the stars resolved into points of light in a second composite. Composites were joined to a single image in Photoshop.
Mount Crested Butte Among the Stars
For those who travel to Mount Crested Butte for skiing or to Crested Butte for the Wildflower Festival, bicycling, hiking or photography, the mountain's shape and lines are familiar and distinctive.
I intended that the mountain only be lit by starlight, but the ski area keeps lights on all night--note the facilities at the base and also high on the mountain. The western side of the top of the mountain is lit by the lights of town.
Crested Butte is at 8,909 feet in elevation, but the peak of the mountain is at 12,162 feet. Nevertheless, the mountain is dwarfed by our galaxy, the Milky Way, which is a hundred thousand light years across and is composed by one hundred billion stars, all rotating around a black hole at the very center.
Without moving the tripod, 6 shots were taken of the landscape (f 2.8, ISO 5000, 205 sec) and 26 shots were taken of the stars (f 2.8, ISO 5000, 13 sec). Landscape shots were stacked or blended in Photoshop to a single composite. Star shots were rotated in StarryLandscapeStacker so that the stars resolved into points of light in a second composite. Composites were joined to a single image in Photoshop.