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Tahoe Nights

Bonsai Rock at Lake Tahoe was on my bucket list for a long time. Last August, during my road trip following the solar eclipse, I was finally able to tick it off.

 

While scouting the place in the afternoon, I was shocked how small the rock looked from the lake shore. It looked much closer in images a saw online. Only later I learned that water levels were unusually high in 2017, thus not allowing photographers to move as close as during earlier years.

 

I nevertheless returned to the place after dinner, to capture some nightscapes.

 

This is one of the first compositions I took, shortly after astronomical dusk. I was not planning to shoot so early, as the moon was still above the horizon, but when I saw the light of the setting moon reflecting across the whole lake, while Milky Way was slowly becoming visible in the sky, I just had to give it a try.

 

When I saw the result on the screen in the back of my camera I was glad that I once again had arrived early...

 

EXIF

- Astro-modified Canon EOS 6D

- Samyang 24mm f/1.4

- iOptron SkyTracker

- Low Level Lighting with 2 LED panels

 

Foreground:

3 x 25s @ ISO 800, untracked

 

Sky

3 x 25s 2 ISO 800, tracked

 

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Uploaded on January 3, 2018
Taken on August 26, 2017