Rainier Blues

"Rainier Blues"

 

I try to arrive at my photo spots early, but normally I only start shooting after astronomical dusk, in order to get maximum detail in the sky.

 

During my visit to Mt. Rainier in August, I was fully set up early and began exposing when the Milky Way started to show through the darkening sky. While capturing the foreground I tried to adapt my exposures to the fast changing light.

 

While processing this image, I had to adapt my workflow, as the 5 tracked images I captured for stacking, had strong gradients and were far from equally bright.

 

The final result kind of reminds me of my beginnins in nightscape photography, when I processed my skies very blue. This time however, the sky was really blue - at least until after astronomical nightfall.

 

Of course I stayed long enough to also capture the scene in my preferred light too - stay tuned.

 

EXIF

Canon EOS 6D astro modified

Tamron 15-30mm

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

 

Sky

5 x 30üs @ ISO1600 f/2.8

 

Foreground

5x20s & 5x30s @ ISO1600 f/2.8

Done