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This is a repost , but I would like to share the good news
Photo has been published in February issue of Landscape Photography Magazine along with an account of my Namibian trip.
3 image HDR of some of the many large dunes at Sossusvlei in the Namib Naukluft National Park of Namibia.
Taken in Namibia, 100 or so km inland from the Skeleton Coast. This was a beautiful location where I camped for one night. To get this image I had to get up before light and set-up my tripod, waiting for the first rays of sun. I really love the light washing over this boulder mountain in succulent pinks, no photoshopping here at all.
Taken during a 2 week adventure holiday to Namibia with Exodus Travels, October/November 2006. Image taken with a borrowed Minolta Dynax 5D camera, the first DSLR that I ever used. Originally shot in jpeg format, then recently reprocessed using DxO PhotoLab 4 to try and get the best out of them, as I hadn't really appreciated the possibilities of what I'd taken at the time.
I captured this panorama during my Namibia vacation in 2023. It shows the setting Milky Way arching over one of the iconic dead trees in the Namib Rand Desert.
On my YouTube channel I try a new form of presenting such a big image, which not only allows me to zoom in and show the true resolution of the panorama, it also gives me the opportunity to showcase a few of the astronmical wonders it contains and share some insights about them.
You find this astronomy tour through the panorama on my YouTube channel:
youtu.be/aL8K9k754M0?si=7dSHyKyQR95S6O0M
Thanks for watching and I love to hear your feedback about how you like this form of presenting an image.
EXIF
Canon EOS-R, astro-modified by EOS 4Astro
Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART
IDAS NBZ filter
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sky:
Panorama of 10 panels, each a stack of 7x 45s @ ISO1600, unfiltered & 3x 90s @ ISO6400, filtered
Foreground:
Focus stacked panorama of 10 panels, each a stack of 4x 1/30s @ ISO100 during blue hour.
The landscape from Farm Koiimasis in the Namibrand Nature Reserve. In the background the Tiras Mountains.
I recently won two First Prizes in the Travel Photographer of the Year Awards - one for a series of four night shots from Namibia, and one for a timelapse video that was also shot entirely at night in the same country.
You can watch the timelapse video here:
This image is basically a still from the video. For the TPOTY version we had to take this scene out though, because the maximum length for entries was only 1 minute.
Namibia is like our second home - we've been going there every year for almost 12 years now, often multiple times. This country is night photography heaven, which is why I love it even more. I was the first photographer to create an extensive night photography portfolio from Namibia in general and from Deadvlei in particular, and many photographers have been wanting to do the same thing ever since. As a result it was getting more and more difficult to create original material on my visits to Namibia, so in 2010 I decided to take it to the next level and make the first timelapse of Namibia, shot entirely at night. I shot all the material for the video on several visits to Namibia in 2011 and 2012 - over 16,000 shots in total. More info can be found on the vimeo page.
When I was at this location, I set up my dolly with two tripods. That meant that there were no tripods left, and those are pretty crucial for night photography. Knowing this would probably happen, I had bought some bags of rice that I had brought with me on location. I ended up balancing my D4 on one of those bags on a rock that was more or less at the right distance, and then put another bag on top to prevent it from falling off during the night. There are lots of rock hyrax running around here, and I didn't want one jumping on the camera. :-)
The exposure is probably 5 to 10 seconds too long, because some of the stars are getting a bit too elongated, but the funny thing is that for video it doesn't really matter.
If you're interested in joining me on this trip and learn more about night photography and composition, please check out my website for more information:
Squiver Photo Tours & Workshops
Hope to see you there!
Marsel
©2012 Marsel van Oosten, All Rights Reserved. This image is not available for use on websites, blogs or other media without the explicit written permission of the photographer.
Namibia. Dunes at Sossusvlei.
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Big Daddy - Deadvlei, Namibia, 2024
Wie bereits erwähnt war der Moment, alleine unten in der Pfanne zu stehen, mehr als atemberaubend. Als glücklicher Zufall haben sich dann wenig später die ersten Besucher auf der Big Daddy Dune gezeigt. Was für ein spektakulärer Moment im ersten Licht des Tages.