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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
Thanks for all your faves and comments!
Prints available:
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
Thanks for all your faves and comments!
Prints available: