Under the Milky Way
by Rudy Ruberti
This was my first attempt at this type of star photography. I took this last summer while backpacking in the Sierras with my daughter and a couple of friends. I positioned the camera above our camp and took the first shot shortly before dark. The shot for the stars was taken about an hour later. Clouds were moving in and blocked some of the stars on the left horizon. Within about a half hour all the stars were gone (it rained the next afternoon and all through the following night). I consider this somewhere between landscape photography, photo art, and the Hubble Space Telescope, but it was a lot of fun.
Thanks for looking and comments,
Rudy
D700, 24-70mm
f13 @ 33.0s, ISO 1000 (ground)
f2.8 @ 30.0s, ISO 3200 (stars)
Comments
8 commentsIstván
Nice shot.
You took two photos and overlapped them.
How did you get rid of [if you did] the total of a 1 minute star-trail. Or is that a function of a wide angle approach?
I have a D700 and a 14-24 lens and would like to try this.
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the fisch
Larry, this is a blend of two exposures, but only one exposure was used for the sky. I used a high ISO at f2.8 to minimize the exposure time. I found that exposures more than about 40 seconds resulted in unwanted star motion. I also recommend checking out the following article by Floris.
http://www.naturephotographers.net/articles0509/fv0509-1.html
The sky and foreground colors (WB) don't quite go together, making the sky look as if it were pasted from an unrelated image, but it's still a spectacular scene.