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Au Sommet du #semnoz, au dessus d'#Annecy, Une arche se devoile au dessus des montages du #massidesbauges. Jupiter est deja tres brillante. Sortie de nuit avec @visiondephotographe
Last Tuesday night, Roger Nedel, Steve Bunderson and I were in the remote Cathedral Valley region of Capitol Reef Nat’l Park, Utah. That’s Temple of the Moon on the right, and the larger Temple of the Sun on the left (about 1/3 mile away). Roger is holding a lighter in his hands, and trying very hard to hold still! This is one exposure: 25 seconds, f/2.8, ISO 6400. The cigarette lighter was lit for only 8 seconds of the total exposure. A filtered LED light panel (400 feet to the right) was left on during the whole exposure (using a Canon 5D Mark 3 and a Tamron 15-30mm lens @ 15mm). This is a northeastern facing composition, so we’re getting the northern “tail” of the Milky Way .
DARK & REMOTE: Cathedral Valley is such a fun place to do “NightScape” style photography because it is so dark and remote. Although the park attracts about 750,000 visitors each year, less than 1% of these ever venture into the northern Cathedral Valley region (I rarely see more than half a dozen vehicles on any trip).
ONLY 3 LUMENS: The brilliance of the little lighter flame in Roger’s hand, gives one an idea of how dark this region is. A candle or lighter flame gives off only 12 lumens of light, and since this flame was lit for only 8 of the 25 seconds, that’s only a 3 lumens equivalent (exposing for 4 seconds would have been even smarter). A standard 60-watt incandescent light bulb produces about 800 lumens — or 267 times brighter! My 200-lumens filtered LED panel light was set for 1/4 power, giving off 1/16 the intensity of a 60-watt light bulb. These are examples of the minimal LLL (Low Level Landscape) lighting that can be used to enhance the foreground features of truly “Dark Sky Places” @idadarksky .
Magic Rock Star Trails
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Raining stars over the California desert, a long exposure night photo showing the celestial movements of the heavens over the course of 21 minutes. I'm reaching deep into the archives today to a photo that is almost five years old. This is the only night I've ever ventured out when completely forgetting to take my tripod. But because I'm forgetful, I have always kept my father's old 1970s tripod from Sears in the back of my car, and it served me well here.
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I'm always amazed at how much color comes out in a photo that is hidden or barely discernible when we are looking at it with our own eyes. I know this intellectually, of course, but am still amazed every time. It's this sort of quality that further inspires me to slow down and really appreciate the night sky and how the world looks at night in general.
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Title: Magic Rock Star Trails
Photographer: Ken Lee
Info: Nikon D7000, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8, 1970s metal tripod from Sears. This is a long exposure night sky photo of 21 minutes in total, with each individual photo exposed for 30 seconds at f/2.8 ISO 400, stacked "by hand" in CS4. I "light painted" the foreground with a Streamlight LED flashlight. Taken 10:29 pm P.S.T. on 9 November 2013.
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA
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...taken last week in the Sequoia National Park of the largest tree in the world.
This was difficult place to shoot and light at night because the tree is so huge, and the area around the tree is so tight. It took a lot of daytime planning to find space to place and hide the lights and make the best alignment with the Milky Way. Lighting was with 4 LED panel lights on stands, using LowLevelLighting.org techniques.
Check out the other Giant Sequoia > I shot the next night. Which photo do you like best?
You can find more night photography techniques in my ebook, Milky Way NightScapes, which gives extensive details on my style of starry night landscape photography. Four chapters cover planning, scouting, forecasting star/landscape alignment, light painting, shooting techniques and post processing.
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Grasslands Milky Way 2020-08-15
RASC (Royal Astronomical Society of Canada) 2020 Best Overall Image winner.
This is a single exposure of comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) that I managed to capture during a night of stargazing on the English South Downs. I had to do quite a lot of post production work to reduce sensor noise in the image. I was very happy that I managed to capture the fainter sodium tail as well.
Owachomo Bridge, in Natural Bridges Nat’l Mon., Utah is one of the darkest places I’ve ever been —easily a Bortle Class 1. I took this photo in March in order to get this low and horizontal Milky Way alignment.
My friends Roger Nedel and Steve Bunderson helped me place the Low Level Lighting (one LED light panel about 200 feet to the left and two small omnidirectional camp lanterns, hidden behind and underneath the bridge). All lights are dimmed to the intensity of quarter moon light or less (0.024 Lux at the surface of the bridge).
EXIF: Normally, I try to shoot my LLL nightscapes in one exposure, but this time I did an exposure stack of 10 shots for the sky (f/2.8, 13 sec, ISO 6400), blended with a long exposure for the foreground (f/4.0, 214 sec, ISO 1600) in order to reduce noise. Canon 5DM3 • Tamron 15-30mm @ 15mm.
More of my night photography techniques (my specialty) are available in my ebook, Milky Way NightScapes, which gives extensive details on my style of starry night landscape photography. Four chapters cover planning, scouting, forecasting star/landscape alignment, light painting, shooting techniques and post processing.
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I illuminated this moss-covered fog-enshrouded vintage automobile with warm white light from a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light while the camera's shutter was open during this long exposure night photo. This was photographed while on a trip visiting my friend Lee in Atlanta and doing night photography with Tim while checking out locations for future night photography workshops. We photographed on a damp foggy December evening in Old Car City, filled with 4000 abandoned vintage vehicles in a forest dripping from rain earlier that evening.
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(Plate 8712) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 150 seconds f/8 ISO 400. December 2022.
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IC410 is an emission nebula located in the constellation of Auriga at about 12,000 light years from Earth. It is part of a larger star forming region that also contains the Flaming Star Nebula. The gas structures in this picture are lit by the radiation from the open star cluster NGC1893 that lies in the center of the nebula.
Equipment & Image Details:
Celestron 8" EdgeHD scope, Celestron CGEM II mount (hypertuned), ZWOASI1600MM Pro camera. Narrowband subs: 7 x 1,200 sec Ha filter, 3 x 1,200 sec OIII filter, 6 x 1,200 sec SII filter.
Processed with PixInsight and Photoshop.
SH2-132 is a faint emission nebula on the Cepheus/Lacerta border, estimated to be at a distance of about 10,000 to 12,000 light years.
I have included the starless version to show the tremendous detail in the nebula.
Image captured from Grasslands National Park, SK under Bortle 1 skies. 2020-08-19, 2020-08-20 & 2020-08-22.
Image capture details: (7h 20m)
Ha-10x1,200sec (3h20m)
OIII-6x1,200sec(2h)
SII-6x1,200sec(2h)
Imaging Equipment:
SharpStar 140PH Triplet with reducer
Celestron CGEM II mount (hypertuned),
ZWOASI1600MM Pro camera
The Toadstool Hoodoos in Kane County, Utah are impressive at any time during the day, but lit against a magical moonlit sky with a dash of milky way, they are a sight that will take your breath away.
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Credits: Robin Onderka | www.instagram.com/robin_onderka
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3 days, 2 cameras with 2 lenses, over 700 photos, hours of shooting, selecting and editing. This photo is a record of this year's Perseid meteor shower, as I was able to capture from eastern Czech Republic. For the technique, each day I went to a place one hour from my home and shot the sky on 2 DSLR’s. Because I was very limited with a region of the sky I could capture, I collected 28 complete meteors around this north-east part of the sky. Interestingly, most of these meteors flew towards Messier 31, Galaxy in Andromeda.
First camera was a Canon 6D Mark II with Samyang 14 mm f/2.8, which photographed primarily a wide shot of the sky to collect meteors. Second camera was my astro-modified Canon 6D with Sigma 35 mm f/1.4, that was used to photograph this scene (and a few other experiments that unfortunately did not work out).
As for post-processing, all panels were stacked and stitched into vertical panorama. Each meteor was then placed at exact place to match correctly with my panorama, using basic transform techniques in Photoshop. A little game with layer blending mode was also on point.
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Sky + ground: a panorama made of 6 horizontal panels at 35 mm (modified 6D)
15 x 10 sec - f/2.2 - ISO 6400 per panel
Meteors: wide angle capture at 14 mm (stock 6DmkII)
700+ x 30 sec - f/2.8 ISO 10 000 || a selection of 28 meteors
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Date and time: 10. - 12. Aug at night time
Location: Staré Hamry; Czech Republic (49°29'18.9"N 18°29'25.4”E)
Star trails over Mexican Hat Rock, Utah. Shot last week with my friends, Roger Nedel and @stevebundersonphoto. This is my down-N-dirty “quickie” method for making star trails: a single, 1-hour (3600 seconds) exposure @ f/5.6, ISO 160, with the camera’s “Long Exposure Noise Reduction” function turned on. See pages 6 & 62 of my MilkyWay NightScapes eBook for more details.
You can find more night photography techniques in my ebook, Milky Way NightScapes, which gives extensive details on my style of starry night landscape photography. Four chapters cover planning, scouting, forecasting star/landscape alignment, light painting, shooting techniques and post processing.
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Cathedral Gorge State Park, Nevada, under a quarter moon and low level lighting (5 hidden lights)
You can find more night photography techniques in my ebook, Milky Way NightScapes, which gives extensive details on my style of starry night landscape photography. Four chapters cover planning, scouting, forecasting star/landscape alignment, light painting, shooting techniques and post processing.
Night Photo Blog | NightScaper FB Group | Instagram | Workshops
This old barn doesn't look like much during the day but it certainly lights up under a starry sky against the distant lights of the city.
Located about 15 miles west of Moab, Utah on Bureau of Land Management land near the banks of the Colorado River. 1.5 miles of strenuous hiking from the parking lot - but worth it. The arch is probably most famous for people swinging under it on ropes - until a Darwin Award winner killed himself after jumping off the top of the arch holding a rope that was too long. All rope activity has been banned on this and several other arches in the area.
The arches in the region were formed after seas covering the area evaporated and left salt beds between sandstone formations deposited 150 million years ago. The salt beds eroded, the sandstone domes collapsed and weathered into vertical slab-like “fins.” Sections of the thin walls eventually eroded through, forming arches - some have been in existence of the order of 50-100 million years.
Like a lot of Utah, this area has dark skies (although the light pollution from Moab is rising at an alarming rate from more an more visitors and business development). The geological setting makes for dramatic nightcapes.
This image is composed of two exposures - the foreground and the sky. Equipment: Nikon D850 and Nikon 14-24 F2.8 lens at 14 mm and F2.8, tripod and Sky Watcher Star Adventurer equatorial mount. The arch was lit by 3 strategically placed very low light level LEDs with tungsten filters. The light was so dim on the arch that it could not be seen with the dark adapted eye. The foreground was a 120 second exposure with the sky tracker turned off. The sky was also a 120 second exposure, but with the tracker turned on. I had to do a polar alignment by setting the elevation angle of the tracking axis using an inclinometer app on my phone and the direction using my phone’s compass since Polaris was behind the rocks to my north. critical polar alignment is not required for ultra wide angle lenses. The two images were blended in Photoshop. It was also a bit challenging to set up on the 20 degree slope of the rocks in front of the arch. The light dome at the horizon seen through the arch was created by light pollution from Moab.
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I took this last week at Signal Mountain Summit, Teton National Park, Wyoming. Single exposure.
No artificial lighting (light painting) is allowed in Grand Teton NP, but you can use your headlamp to get safely to your shooting location (as well as operational camera lights). Once at this spot I turned off my Petzl Actik Core (350 lumens) headlamp and went to it’s super weak 5 lumens “Max Autonomy” position for this exposure (it actually puts out less light than that silly red exposure indicator light on the back of my Canon camera!).
You can find more night photography techniques in my ebook, Milky Way NightScapes, which gives extensive details on my style of starry night landscape photography. Four chapters cover planning, scouting, forecasting star/landscape alignment, light painting, shooting techniques and post processing.
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Three NightScape techniques for Chimney Rock, Capitol Reef Nat’l Park, Utah. You be the judge.
1) A single 25 sec exposure @ f/2.8, ISO 6400. 2) A 100 sec exposure to increase foreground detail, blended (via Photoshop layers) with the previous exposure of the sky. This is the “natural” method preferred by many, but because starlight comes from overhead and all around, it is like photographing with an overcast day (very flat, with little character). 3) A single exposure @ f/2.8, 25 sec, ISO 6400, with artificial lighting strategically placed (see my next post for more details).
#2 could have been done using low angle moonlight, but the star and moonlight exposures would have been many hours apart, and there are only 2 days a month where the angle is even somewhat correct. Mixing a twilight exposure would have been a fairly worthless option here because we are facing southeast and a northwestern twilight would have also given flat lighting.
<< See next post for a full, un-cropped view of # 3.
You can find more night photography techniques in my ebook, Milky Way NightScapes, which gives extensive details on my style of starry night landscape photography. Four chapters cover planning, scouting, forecasting star/landscape alignment, light painting, shooting techniques and post processing.
Night Photo Blog | NightScaper FB Group | Instagram | Workshops
Pyrmont Bridge at Darling Harbour, Sydney Australia.
This one taken using the lamp posts to steady the camera aligning the poles, appears the center image had camera shape making the middle a little unsharp.
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I will never forget the first time I jumped off this arch on a rope swing. It was such a fun day!! I am honored to have been asked to speak at the first ever Nightscaper Conference in Moab UT next May. This is going to be an amazing educational event for those interested in night photography. Sign up soon since the conference will likely sell out quickly!
I took this image a year ago in Moab, during the @nightscaperconference. This is Corona arch. In May, when you start shooting after midnight, the Milky Way sits behind the arch. As the night goes on, the Milky Way turns West and at some point you can shoot from inside the arch. This is indeed an unusual view of such a massive arch!
The Milky Way rises to the east behind Joshua Trees, an iconic indicator species of the Mojave Desert ecosystem.
Thank you [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ironrodart] for including this image in your presentatiop at the 2024 Nightscapers Conference!
After a long drive from Moab I arrived in the Needles District of Canyonlands NP. This is the scene from the parking lot but there are so many other great opportunities in this area to capture the Milkyway. During this shoot I was with a group with PhotogAdventures on a workshop during the Nightscapers Conference in Moab Utah in May.
This image shows the rising Seagull Nebula soaring high above Mt. Druesberg in central Switzerland.
The Seagull Nebula is an emission nebula on the borders of the constellations of Monoceros and Canis Major. Its location 10 degrees below the celestial equator puts it rather low for northern hemisphere observers, which may be the reason why it is not as famous as other nebula that rise higher during the night.
For deepscapes however, a deep space object needs to hug the horizon, which makes the Seagull Nebula a perfect target.
Despite careful planning, the resulting image contains a big surprise: The Seagull Nebula is not that splendid bird with a bright body and wispy wings and tail you can see in this deep image. I didn't even know that these structures exist. What is known as the Seagull Nebula is just the bright body part that remotely resembles a soaring bird on its own - it is the bird in a much bigger, more detailed bird! How awesome!
If you want to know how such 'deepscapes' are captured, make sure you do not miss my virtual presentation at the 2021 NightScaper Conference from May 10-12, 2021. Conference tickets are still available under www.nightscaper.com
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EXIF
Canon EOS 6D, astro-modified
ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 @ f/4
Baader Ultra Narrowband H-alpha and Olll filters
Modified Skywatcher AZ-GTI mount, controlled with ASIair
Sky:
Canon EOS 6D @ 200mm:
26 x 60s @ ISO1600 for RGB
ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro @ 96mm (to match the 200mm full frame FOV)
20 x 300s H-alpha @ Gain 200
10 x 300s Olll @ Gain 200
Foreground:
8 x 90s @ ISO1600
Work For Sale | www.milkywaymike.com | FB Fanpage | Twitter | Google+ | Youtube3 Sky photos stacked with StarryLandscapeStacker. The sky was 3x 2 minute exposures with a Ioptron Star Tracker. The foreground was shot with 5x 2 minute exposures stacked.
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I illuminated this moss-covered vintage 1951 Packard Clipper with warm white light from a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light while the camera's shutter was open during this long exposure night photo. This was photographed while on a trip visiting my friend Lee in Atlanta and doing night photography with Tim while checking out locations for future night photography workshops. We photographed on a damp foggy December evening in Old Car City, filled with 4000 abandoned vintage vehicles in a forest dripping from rain earlier that evening.
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(Plate 8709) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 150 seconds f/8 ISO 400. December 2022.
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The Church of the Blue Sky
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Behold this breathtaking wooden church at twilight, perched atop a hill overlooking a valley that's nestled in the mountains at about 7400 feet in elevation in Nye County, Nevada. This 4/5 replica of a historic Catholic church, crafted with meticulous attention to detail, takes you back to the charm of the 19th century. But what truly brings the magic to life is the power of light painting! Armed with my trusty handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light, I illuminated the church's exterior with a warm white glow. Inside, I summoned hues of yellow to illuminate the sacred space, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere. And that's a beautiful thing since it was just a few degrees above freezing on this gorgeous May evening.
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(Plate 0022) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 3 minutes f/8 ISO 200. May 2023.
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Airglow phenomenon - 2023-06-23
Images captured during our Milky Way Workshop from Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park.
Airglow (also called nightglow) is a faint emission of light by a planetary atmosphere. Airglow is caused by various processes in the upper atmosphere of Earth such as, luminescence caused by cosmic rays striking the upper atmosphere, and chemiluminescence caused mainly by oxygen and nitrogen reacting with hydroxyl free radicals at heights of a few hundred kilometres. It renders as blue or green wisps or rays on images.
This image is a single exposure of 20 seconds. The airglow rays are very clear. They were so bright the green even stood out over the milky way core.
I’m focusing on the positives for the year as @davidverbossche and I had some great camping trips out and about Western Australia chasing the Milkyway, so here’s a couple from the Pinnacles at the end of June. July I ended up with Covid and at the same time my knee completely locked up so no Astro at all in July! I made a slight recovery from my injury so made the most of August and I still have some images to process but from the beginning of September up until now I’ve been recovering from major surgery on my knee and its been a long long way back and I might not even make it back for the start of Astro season next year!
Back to these images, the night began with a couple of cheeky Balter IPA beers, as you do lol, while we took some blue hour images then began shooting the night sky but boy did the temperature plummet. We were in t-shirts during the twilights but the dew point hit really quickly and lens heaters were required plus our jumpers, fleeces, bubble jackets etc!
It was a memorable night and one to look back on fondly, as my Milkyway chasing for the year came to an early end, and that’s a big part of it for me, it’s not the images it’s being out there looking up at the dark and glorious Southern skies and the jewels it contains and sharing that experience with like minded people.
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The Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) with a photobomb by the Horsehead Nebula (Upper right) found in the Orion constellation and part of the Orion Nebula. The Large bright star above the Flame Nebula Is Alnitak the easternmost star of Orion's belt. This image is a composite using a one-shot color camera (RGB) combined with H alpha narrowband with about 4 hours of data collected.
How do you know corporations have taken over the world? When corporations like #Nike have acquired the tools to paint their company logo on the sky in the form of Aurora Borealis. 😁
Some serious northern light activity this weekend, which were visible all the way to southern Finland. Have a lovely day, folks!
I am sure you have your favorite astronomy magazine, but did you ever wish for a publication that was specifically targeted at nightscapers? Well, I have good news for you...
Today the first issue of the Dark Sky Travels Digital Magazine was published. It is a free monthly digital publication targeted at the nightscaper community.
You think that’s great? I certainly agree!
The Dark Sky Travels Digital Magazine is packed with useful information about nightscaping locations, shooting techniques and equipment and yes, it honored me with a feature in its first issue! I am not affiliated with the magazine in any other way, but I am of course proud to be featured along with some excellent nightscaper collegues like Wayne Pinkston, Eric Benedetti and Matt Domonkos Photography.
Did I make you curious? Have a look - here is the link: www.darkskytravels.com/
Caught Between The Moon and Yucca Valley (9405)
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The moon behind a silhouette of a Joshua Tree in beautiful Joshua Tree National Park, CA on a perfect night in mid-June. I met my friend Dave for dinner and then drove out to this picturesque area of the Park for the beginning of my photog adventure in this area. To the right of this photo was a strange humming sound, and as I walked closer, I realized that it was a giant bee hive. That area could wait for another time to explore. Time to walk to a different area and photograph! I liked the way the moon appeared to nestle between the branches of this Joshua Tree, and the stars this evening were magnificent, shimmering on that way that stars shimmer only in the desert night sky.
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Nikon D750/Irix 15mm f/2.4 lens. 15s f/2.4 ISO 2000 2018-06-18 23:05
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"Head Shot" of the Fish Head Nebula, IC 1795. (2020-02-03 & 2020-02-14)
The Fish Head Nebula (IC1795) features glowing gas and dust in a star forming area in Cassiopeia. It s part of the Heart Nebula (IC1805) complex that is located at about 6000 light years away.
Equipment & Image Details:
Celestron 8" EdgeHD scope, Celestron CGEM II mount (hypertuned), ZWOASI1600MM Pro camera. Narrowband subs: 4*1,200 sec Ha filter, 6*1,200 sec OIII filter, 3*1,200 sec SII filter.
Processed with PixInsight and Photoshop.
The park is located in the Milk River Valley, 100km SE of Lethbridge, AB. On the far southern horizon are the volcanic Sweetgrass Hills of Montana.
Thanks to a very wet June, the Hoodoos stand out amongst the green grass and Cottonwood trees. Áísínai’pi means “it is pictured” or “it is written” in the Blackfoot language. My impression of "it is pictured", the Milky Way rising above the pristine darkness of the Milk River Valley.
Image captured with a fully modified Canon EOSR camera with a visible+Ha filter. A Sigma 14mm Art lens at f/3.5. Untracked composite, 4 images at ISO800 and 240seconds for the ground, 8 images at ISO3200 and 20seconds for the sky. Modifications performed by Spencer's Camera & Photo
With the ban on artificial lighting in Arches National park set to take effect in 2020, we figured this was our last chance to see this beautiful arch light painted with our galaxy.
Thank you to the photographers who worked with me and gave feedback until we had the lighting just right.
During my short vacation around new moon, I was hoping to capture some nightscapes in the mountains, but it was not to be. Central Europe was covered under a solid layer of clouds and soaked with continuous rain.
I therefore changed my plans on short notice and crisscrossed all over Italy in search of clear skies, summing up over 2000 miles in 5 days.
The crazy effort yielded mixed success. While I was able to find clear skies during 3 out of 4 evenings, the nights proved to be difficult. Initially the incredible amount of light pollution drowned the rising Milky Way and by the time it had risen higher above the horizon, clouds or fog moved in quickly. I still got away with some shots that should be usable, but I had no time yet to process them.
Being skunked with cloudy skies is something nightscapers have to be able to cope with. You have to have a backup plan. It can consist of other types of photography, like daytime work or time-lapse movies of the moving clouds. In Italy, with its cultural and gastronomic bounty, you can of course also easily spend your time without ever touchng your camera.
This day it had been pouring down the whole afternoon. When the rain finally stopped, I walked along the beach to a restaurant for dinner. Suddenly the setting sun broke through the clouds and drenched the landscape with pastel light.
I was glad that, like any decent photographer, I had taken my camera bag along and was able to capture the unfolding scene.
Prints available:
The Gold Eye and the Heavens Above (6322)
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You know you are somewhere quiet and remote when you are keenly aware of that barely perceptible "hum" and are conscious of how well you can hear your breathing. Silence is louder and the stars shine brighter. This is Ojo Oro Arch, a hidden gem located in a secret corner of the Mojave Desert, not a strange new world from "Star Trek" but almost as far. Bodhi Smith, Chip Morton and I hiked several miles and hung out during this night photography trip. When I finally settled down to sleep under the stars around 3:30 am cocooned by a canopy of stars and the Milky Way arching directly overhead. Every several minutes, I saw shooting stars streaking through the night sky. Much thanks to Bodhi for inviting me on this fantastic trip. I illuminated the rocky arch with warm white light and red light using a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 during the exposure. Thank you very much for looking!
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Nikon D750/Irix 15mm f/2.4 lens. Earth: 135 seconds f/2.5 ISO 400. Sky: 17 individual photos "stacked" at 15 seconds f/2.5 ISO 4000. ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device.
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