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The pano shows a view short before sunset over the Upper Franconian region near Hof. I like the sunbeams and the hills in this image - and the maize field in the foreground.
This pano was stitched from 7 single shots.
A sunlit foreground leads to the famous Portland Head Lighthouse standing at the edge of the waters in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. I typically shoot my photos in the traditional "landscape" format, but I thought rotating the camera to the portrait layout worked well here to add some real depth to the shot!
A night by Collins Pool with a tiny island view, under the dazzling rise of the Southern Milky Way and the auroras.
Just as if nature had planned it, the Aurora Australis started to paint the sky in soft waves of pink, red, and yellow.
Most people know the northern lights, but our southern auroras are rarer because of how the Earth’s magnetic field interacts down here. Without as many land masses in the south, it’s a treat we don’t often get to see as brightly in the south. In fact, I didn't even realize the #auroras were that bright until I was already into my 2nd shot of this sky's pano, had I known, I would've used a wider lens...easier to stitch.
The image is a composite, the ground was shot while the moon was out while the sky was captured on the same night after the moon had set.
Sky
Nikon D5500 (fullspectrum mod)
Nikon 50mm f/1.8
Star Adventurer Pro 2i
Hoya UV/IR Cut
40x20s, f/2.8
Foreground
Nikon D5200
Samyang 24mm f/1.4
6 shots in portrait mode at f/4
Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) from 20K north of Hawker, South Australia. A single 10 second shot during astro twilight blended with a 60 second shot for the foreground. Edit: Satellites removed!!
Before you draw your conclusions about this image, please read the description.
The sky and foreground were captured back to back at the same focal length and with the same equipment from a single tripod position.
The camera position was roughly 2 miles away from the mountain station, and the telescope/camera combination has an extremely narrow field of view of only 1.5° x 2°. The resulting telephoto compression makes the otherwise tiny Orion Nebula appear huge.
Two years ago, I had already captured a similar deepscape, but I was never really satisfied with it. The problem was lacking data for my sky, especially in the green channel, as clouds moved in towards the end of the imaging session.
Of course, I could have recaptured the missing data or the entire Orion Nebula from a different place, but that's not my style. After waiting two years for an opportunity to reshoot the image, I finally got my chance this February.
The weather this time was perfect, which made capturing the sky pretty straightforward, but otherwise, the conditions were still as demanding as 2 years ago.
Getting the foreground in focus with a monochrome micro 4/3rd astro-cam and RGB filters through a 500mm f/5.6 telescope is a real pain. Furthermore, snowcats grooming the slopes caused constantly changing, extremely bright illumination. Considering this, I am quite happy that I was able to capture a usable foreground.
EXIF
Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro (cooled monochrome MFT astro-cam)
Telescope: William Optics Megrez 88 (500mm f/5.6)
Filters: Baader HaRGB
Other equipment: ZWO EFW and EAF
Autoguider: ZWO ASI 385MC
Mount: Equatoriallly mounted Skywatcher AZ-GTI
Rig control: ASIair
Sky:
25min RGB (each)
21min Ha
Foreground:
5x 60s RGB (each)
10 x 60s Luminance
While exploring for new compositions with John Andersen, we found ourselves tromping through the bush around 3AM last night. Great times.
The Sun waits until we walk back to the car! 66739 Heads the morning Alcans away from Fort Bill.
N.B Wires removed from sky.
Emphasis on foreground sand ripple patterns in warm first light, ultimately leading to an interesting sunny sand dune. The curvy shadow lines are a nice touch in the midground, and they continue to lead the viewer ultimately to the ray of sunlight streaming through the sky over the distant mountain.
Ultra-wide focal lengths like 14mm, used in a portrait orientation, promote foreground while de-emphasizing the midground and background. This can be a powerful tool to deploy, in your intent to showcase a particular portion of a scene, and to prioritize the foreground vs. other elements in a deliberate way.
I like to provide additional details that can be discovered and appreciated over time, so I rarely make shadows to fully to black (enjoy). Subtle details can be included or de-emphasized using subtle photographic techniques that impact the end result.
Diez Vistas Trail, Anmore, BC.
If a rolling stone gathers no moss, then these boulders stopped rolling a long time ago. Also is it just me, or does salal not make a wonderful foreground element.
A bottle of Gatorade in the the foreground (fruit punch flavor) and a bottle of colored sand in the background.
Radar tower in Cuxhaven, Germany, at night after a downpour. The two windows on the right in the foreground are part of the lighthouse.
Taking a few steps back to include some of the foreground for an ever so slightly different shot of V41 and V19 heading north on N159 Newcastle Interchange service, passing over the Meadowbank bridge. Luckily no one was walking by at this moment.
Mt. Baker with a lenticular cloud forming above it. As viewed from Hannegan Peak with Nooksack Ridge in the foreground, North Cascades, Washington State.
Simple wooden bridge now leads to a hidden destination. It is a foggy morning in the fall season. The leaves of the willow tree have yellowed and some have already fallen on the bridge.
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Liverpool 2 container terminal on the North bank of the River Mersey working through the night to turn around two MSC container ships with New Brighton`s Vale Park in the foreground.
Foreground blossom against background winter bare trees. Seen on a short walk from home. Pouring with rain today and possible snow tomorrow so definitely not Spring here!
Explore Oct 31, 2008 #115
Today's soundtrack: She moved through the Fair, Loreena McKennitt
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Left bank, front of Saint-Mathurin-sur-Loire (Loire valley, France)
The view across Loch Duich towards the southeast on a late autumn evening. The mat of fucus seaweed made for a colourful, and unexpected foreground.
Practicing vertical panorama and foreground search for this iconic place. Actually the branch was very tiny and and I did my best to do something with it too, with a lot of pain in my back and in my neck in order to get a correct focus and depth of field, not totally perfect though
(Norway, Senja, August 2018)
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The view of Gamla Stam, Stockholm, across the icy waters of Ladugardslandsviken, captured on a freezing winter’s morning. Thanks for looking.