Mine Of Stars
The night sky never ceases to inspire and bewilder me, the vastness of space, the thought that in this picture alone there may be just a few thousands visible and this is just a tiny portion of the night sky. Every star in view is unthinkable distances from us but they capture our imagination and also make you feel like a very insignificant part of the universe.
I got an invite last Saturday evening to join a couple of friends on a sunset, Astro and sunrise shoot without sleep and of course I'm not one for turning down a chance for a bit of fun, so I agreed. Our astro and potential milky way shoot location was Magpie mine, an abandoned lead mine in the Derbyshire peak district, a fairly dark sky area, not perfect but a decent chance of capturing something. I have been wanting to do a night time shoot ever since I purchased my very fast Sigma 18-35 f1.8 lense, just to see how good it was in capturing the night sky, I have to say I was very pleased with the results, especially as I am quite new to astro photography. We didn't have a great deal of time to make the most of the darker sky because the half moon soon rose and put paid to capturing much more of the Milky way, super practice nevertheless and I can't wait until next time.
7 x portrait format images stitched in photoshop
Mine Of Stars
The night sky never ceases to inspire and bewilder me, the vastness of space, the thought that in this picture alone there may be just a few thousands visible and this is just a tiny portion of the night sky. Every star in view is unthinkable distances from us but they capture our imagination and also make you feel like a very insignificant part of the universe.
I got an invite last Saturday evening to join a couple of friends on a sunset, Astro and sunrise shoot without sleep and of course I'm not one for turning down a chance for a bit of fun, so I agreed. Our astro and potential milky way shoot location was Magpie mine, an abandoned lead mine in the Derbyshire peak district, a fairly dark sky area, not perfect but a decent chance of capturing something. I have been wanting to do a night time shoot ever since I purchased my very fast Sigma 18-35 f1.8 lense, just to see how good it was in capturing the night sky, I have to say I was very pleased with the results, especially as I am quite new to astro photography. We didn't have a great deal of time to make the most of the darker sky because the half moon soon rose and put paid to capturing much more of the Milky way, super practice nevertheless and I can't wait until next time.
7 x portrait format images stitched in photoshop