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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.
A straight through the building shot, one side to the other. With some snow in the immediate foreground 😁.
Before archiving a folder earlier this year, I found this shot and another that I liked....
Crescent moon setting with the other 2 brightest night planets: Venus (bottom right) and Jupiter top. They were within ~10 degrees wide.
I haven't seen a star burst from the moon before especially as the aperture was only f/11. DPS has a good overview of how to do these. Note that since the 10-22mm lens had 6 blades for its aperture, this meant 6 points to the star. With odd number of blades, you get double the points eg 18 points with my new 16-35mm f/4 lens (9 blades)
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There aren't a lot of aspects in Sydney for western/sunsets. I wanted the conjunction to be framed by a foreground and the only one I could find that lined up (thanks TPE) was from Mrs Macquarie's Chair. A fantastic spot and easy to get to but frequently shot.
22 June 2023
Milky Way rise over the Alien Throne with the waxing crescent moon illuminating the landscape. Cropped some shadows from the foreground. I was thinking I wanted the Milky Way higher in the sky, but I like having Scorpius in frame. It rotated out later and the shadows were obnoxious. Sky processed with a deep sky work flow - 10 images stacked - Starry Landscape Stacker, Photoshop, Astronomy Tools and Astro Panel. Landscape averaged to reduce noise and using Nik tools—mostly pro contrast. Canon EOS Ra, Samyang 14mm, f2.8, ISO1600, 20s.
The Alien Throne sits in the badlands northwest of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. It is a very popular subject for photographers and despite it being just a few hours away, this was my first visit.
I knew it could be crowded around the new moon. I had no idea. For a Thursday night…with a little too much moon…there were eleven of us at one point. Never had to work with such a large group…
"Hoodoo" in the context of geology refers to tall, thin rock formations, often found in arid regions like Monument Canyon. These formations are sculpted by erosion from wind, water, and freeze-thaw cycles.
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.
I liked this grouping of rocks for adding foreground detail during a sunset outing at Lake McDonald.
Late in the week we had a sunset outing part way up the Going To The Sun Road along Lake McDonald. The pullout had a parking area and a pebble beach with room for us to spread out. The colors that evening were not spectacular, but there was a moment of intense color after the sun got low enough to catch the underside of the clouds. I found this small grouping of rocks a short walk from the parking area where I set up my tripod and captured this image.
In the foreground lies France and in particular the Cote d'Azur. In the background lies Monaco, the playground of the rich and famous and the home of the high rise block!
Single guanaco, Torres del Pine, Chilean Patagonia. Starting a new series where animals make a foreground element to the landscape, since I suck at taking animal (and human) portraits. The new album stretches decades and continents:
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Greetings from an expensive hotel near Dublin airport, my current trip concludes tomorrow.
Seattle, Washington, USA.
(Technically, you’re viewing three different cities in this photo. From foreground to background: Bellevue, Mercer Island, and Seattle).
The title of this photograph is apropos because night time photography of urban landscapes, such as this, is often what sustains my equilibrium. I think some people call this their “happy space” or “happy place".
I think I have two happy spaces: 1) Photographing cities between sunset and nightfall while listening to tunes on my iPod; and 2) Hovering above cities in a doorless helicopter several hundred feet in the air, wind blowing around my body, while capturing the city below on camera. (Yes, I actually am completely at peace, even when there’s turbulence).
These are the two times I am at peace amidst all the pandemonium surrounding us in this world each day. This pandemonium only seems to intensify, so it’s paramount to have a personal moment to decompress and catch one’s breath.
I hope all of you have moments when you can be at peace, even if it’s for a short period of time.
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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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Composite image featuring Ho Chi Minh City in the foreground, and a mix of several asian cities in the background.
The view of Gamla Stam, Stockholm, across the icy waters of Ladugardslandsviken, captured on a freezing winter’s morning. Thanks for looking.
Nikon d810a
ISO 5000
f/2.8
Foreground: 6 x 25 seconds
Sky: 20 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 26 shot panorama of the Crux & Carina region of the Milky Way as it rises above an abandoned farm at Quairading, 2 hours east of Perth in Western Australia.
Prominent in this image are the Magellanic Clouds on the right, the pink coloured Carina Nebula in the upper right quadrant, the dark CoalSack Nebula just below that with Crux to its immediate left.
A panoramic view across Zion National Park in Utah, where red sandstone cliffs rise against a clear desert sky. A lone pine tree and clusters of prickly pear cactus mark the foreground, leading the eye into the valley below and toward the rugged ridges beyond. Captured along the valley floor, this wide composition frames the contrasts of Zion’s landscape: desert plants, sheer cliffs, and the vast openness of the American Southwest.
In an attempt to lift the gloom I have used a little foreground flash in this ground level view from the summit of Bheinn Fhada.
I do experiment a lot with the surrounding of my subjects especially using the foreground branches, grass, etc to obtain a blur around my subject or to get my subject blurred. This is one of the Yellow Warbler I have done recently because I had time to play, it did not move for a ''little'' while.
Nikon d5500
50mm
ISO 4000
f/3.5
Foreground: 26 x 13 seconds
Sky: 60 x 25 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
This is a 73 shot panorama of the Milky Way at Point Peron, part of the metropolitan area of Perth in Western Australia.
Given the location's proximity to the city of Perth, these are the most light polluted skies I have ever shot a full Milky Way panorama at. Let's just say the post processing was a little on the frustrating side, especially trying to minimise the worst of the light pollution on the right side of the image, the side where the more densely populated parts of the city are. Regardless, it made a change from having to drive two hours to a location, this one just a half hour drive away from home.
Foreground property may be part of Blackfeet Nation Indian Reservation
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Nikon D300 + Nikon Nikkor 18-200mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S VR DX
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trees and mountains, two of my favourite things, in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada
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Was taking pictures of storm clouds over the Huachuca Mts when nature provided me with this foreground element. And it was time to move.
Hwy 82 Tombstone, AZ
Queen Elizabeth Park is in the foreground, Vancouver is in the midground and the Coast Mountain Range is in the background. This image made me appreciate just how good the dynamic range has become on Nikon sensors. The foliage in raw, unedited, was black, but I was able to pull out what you see using the shadow slider in Lightroom. There is certainly less of a need for HDR now and I find it much more difficult than it used to be to find a situation where it is really called for. Explore #10 on February 26, 2015.
The Storr, Isle of Skye, Scotland, with the view over the Sound of Raasey to the islands of the Inner Sound. The Old Man of Storr is the highest of the rock pinnacles in the foreground.
Ibrox Stadium, the home of the Famous Glasgow Rangers with the statue of Walter Smith in the foreground.
Taken from an open topped tour bus.
I would have loved to get off and relive the many memories of cheering on the team from the terraces.
Lata Tebing Tinggi, Selama Perak, Malaysia. One of the recreation centers, natural feature in Rantau Panjang. From Selama to Rantau Panjang takes about 5 minutes. Lata Tebing Tinggi about a 10-minute drive from the Rantau Panjang town. This picnic spot is often the focus of many locals as well as locals and some who come from outside especially on weekends. Visitors will surely be enchanted by the green scenery, clear and cool waterfalls.
The camera and lens were left in place for the shots; nothing was moved, resized or pasted out of place from exactly where it occurred (I'm not a fan of faked "big moon " shots).
The post-rise images were captured at an exposure that precluded inclusion of the foreground, so the presence of the static foreground captured at an exposure a couple of minutes earlier implements a bit of a time shift of the foreground from pre to post-rise.
Raw weather conditions on Rannoch Moor with the Buachaille Etive Mòr in the distance. In the foreground is one of the many rivers that join River Etive. Print.
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In the background is the San Rafael-Richmond Bridge. In the foreground are the Main Aerodrome and former US Navy offices.
Nikon d5500
85mm
ISO 4000
f/2.2
Foreground: 40 x 10 seconds
Sky: 138 x 25 seconds
This is a 178 image panorama of the Milky Way setting above the thrombolites of Lake Clifton, about an hour south of Perth in Western Australia.
This was another test of a full panorama using my new 85mm lens. The first test was of the MW rising from the east, this time it's the MW setting towards the west. The first test had me chasing the core all night, it takes so long to shoot a row that the stars can move out of frame by the time you get back to that spot. This time I let the core set into the direction of my field of view and also went with 25 second exposures rather than 30, just to speed things up a bit :)
This lake is famous for its thrombolites, seen here in the foreground. They're microbial formations which have been part of our planet's landscape for billions of years. Lake Clifton is one of the few places in the world where you can see them now.