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Did you ever think of just driving your car as far away as you can instead of going to work in the morning? It's a thought that captivates me, and that's how I imagine someone could end up after driving until they no longer have gas in the tank.
I had wanted to try astro-landscape portraits for a while now. For my first try, I asked my old student, coworker and friend to drive out really far to go see the Milky Way.
We ended up at Churn Creek Protected Area, a gorgeous location I encourage people to visit. But beware, the last 80km or so are done on a dirt path snaking between hills and overlooking cliffs.
Once you arrive on location, you end up in an arid area where the Churn Creek canyon intersects with the Fraser canyon. This place is amazing.
For our shoot, I was hoping the night would get pitch black, but we were far enough in the North that it actually didn't and I was able to navigate without using my flashlight despite that night being moonless and the location a 1 or 2 on the Bortle scale of light pollution. Despite the night being surprisingly bright and slightly cloudy at the same time, details were still visible in the Milky Way.
But it means I'll have to return at the end of the summer, when days will become shorter again and nights longer.
This shoot was done with my Sony A7R, my LA-EA3 adapter, my Sigma ART 35mm, Yongnuo Flashes (3) and flash trigger and a Pixel remote camera trigger.
I configured the shot before sunset, placing the car and the camera so that I could take a shot with enough exposure difference to be able to separate the sky and the foreground in a masking shot. I then waited patiently for the night to fall, and when it started getting dark but before the Milky Way really appeared, I arranged the shot with my model. I purposefully had the flashes have a blueish temperature compared to the white balance, and I pointed two of them at the model and the front of the car, while a third gelled flash gave some colors to the inside of the car. Next, I took series of photos of the Milky Way, which was faint but nevertheless detailed because of how bright the night was. And finally, I did a 24:40 exposure to expose the background (the mountains and parts of the canyon).
After all that, I just had to put everything together. The sky is noisier than I would have liked, because I had to separate it from the sun's light pollution.
Anyway. I'm pretty happy with that first try. I know it's a composite shot, and taking it in one shot would have been easier, but I didn't want everything to be grainy because of the high ISO, so I preferred compositing the image to hopefully end up with a higher image quality compared to similar in-camera shots. I could have used a slightly lower ISO by using a wider angle lens, but I really wanted the Milky Way to look big in the sky.
Join us for flashlight tag in Salchicha Township's spooky new forest!
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Starting 7pm until whenever!
For the best Flashlight Tag experience:
1. Wear the Tag Game attachment! This is the only requirement to play.
2. Set your windlight to
[TOR] FOGGY - Silent heck
or another spooky night WL
3. Grab a flashlight and run for your life!
Bump into people to tag them!
The Fire near the garage is home base.
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Cree 7w 300 LM flashlight. Very bright for the size, complete with one of those fancy flesh-tearing bezels which should come in handy in the upcoming Zombie Apocalypse. Or when I'm desperately trying to break into a bag of Funyuns.
Whichever comes first. Smart bet's on the Funyuns.
Cross aluminum bodied gel pen. Works good, feels good, writes well on paper, maybe on other stuff too. Well, what exactly would you want beyond that?
Cadillac CTS-V key fob. What, you wanna race, kid? You got a Subaru your mom let you hang a big exhaust pipe on? You're going to be very surprised. Pop-Pop's stodgy Cadillac is packing a 556 hp Corvette engine and can -- and will -- lay rubber from here unto eternity.
iPhone 4s, filled to it's 64 gig brim with music and podcasts. I'm still not impressed enough with the 6's and it's not like I watch movies on it on anything. I'll wait for the 7 and see what that's like.
Phonak hearing aids. Just about invisible as they get. You youngsters may snicker, but at 4 grand the pop I can tune into -- or more usually, out of -- your conversations from across the room. Also allows me to Bluetooth phone messages and music from my iPhone without anyone knowing otherwise. What, you thought I moved like that because I was old, senile and doofy? Nope, gotta blame it on the Dead or the Flying Burrito Brothers this time. Well,to be fair, a large dose of senile doofyness might legitimately be factored in too.
CRKT rapid opening folder knife, a joy to hold and use. I've questioned why I bother to carry a knife like this. I mean, it's just a tiny bit excessive, you know? But the last time I used it, I mean really used it for something other than slitting open an Amazon box, I was cutting away 50 years of untended grass off my father's grave last time I was back in Detroit. Just for that, well worth the carry.
Marley-Hodgson Ghurka wallet. I gotta say it, Ghurka makes some of the best leather goods this country has ever seen. Company's been around for a 100 years and their products are well worth the hefty price. Mine I've had for nearly 30 years and everything is tight and shiny where it should be.
Rolex DateJust, in the rare 3/4 size, placed between the Manly Man size and the Delicate Women's. This on account of the wrists I inherited from my mother. Smooth bezel, Jubilee bracelet and which I've worn almost daily since 1979. Only had to have it serviced once. Just a quality piece of work.
The very same eye glass frames I wore in the early 80's non-ironically but now fitted with trick self-dimming no-line bifocals which I've almost convinced myself I can pass for a much younger hipster.
All sitting on my long-time companion, a no-brand name leather bag I bought more than 20 years ago, which was vintage even then. I've had the interior re-done, in a really soft flannel that you'd want to crawl up in on a cold, rainy night if you could. Put a new Ghurka strap on it and it suits me just fine. Right size, just enough pockets and, best of all, I've never seen another like it. I've actually had people ask me if they could touch it. Everyone else's seems just so new, you know what I mean?
I found this nut when I was out on a walk a few weeks ago, brought it home and plunked it down on my computer table, with the vague intent of somehow trying to make a photograph out of it. Finally, yesterday I decided I'd best do something with it before it withered up and combined it with this old dead leaf and a piece of driftwood we had in our garden. The lighting was deep afternoon shady window light, plus a swirling flashlight beam.
ODT, "Still Life."