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Magical Paradise Waterfall

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p.1 #1 · Magical Paradise Waterfall

Magical Paradise by zakdepierophotography, on Flickr

10 photographs stacked in StarStaX, all exposed closely to 150" seconds. The waterfall was painted during each exposure for about 45 seconds to give it the glowing look!

Went out last night with my girlfriend and a good friend of mine to shoot this. I've had this in mind for quite some time but its about 40 minutes away so I never really go around to it. We'll I'm extremely happy with the outcome and I plan on doing a bunch more photographs like this in the near future.

Just sucks that I have to drive at least 20 Minutes away to get a photo where there isn't crazy amount of light pollution.

-Zak

Jan 30, 2012 at 03:37 PM

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p.1 #2 · Magical Paradise Waterfall

Very cool, good job.
And hey, a 40 minute drive is nothing for a great photograph.

Jan 30, 2012 at 03:52 PM

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p.1 #3 · Magical Paradise Waterfall

Nice magic. This has strong elements of composition with teh FG rock, the falls, tree and stars. Plenty to keep me entertained without being too busy

Gordon

Jan 30, 2012 at 08:26 PM

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p.1 #4 · Magical Paradise Waterfall

Great creativity. Dig it!

Jan 30, 2012 at 08:56 PM

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p.1 #5 · Magical Paradise Waterfall

I guess I'll be driving a bit more to get some of these star trail photos! really pleased with the outcome.

Thanks for all the feedback. At first I thought the rock in the foreground was a bit over powering but I guess now that I really look at it the focal points are too strong to even really notice it

-Zak

Jan 31, 2012 at 02:21 PM

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p.1 #6 · Magical Paradise Waterfall

Ridiculous!

I think the clarity of the foreground rock only adds to the many beautiful layers of interest in this composition.

Jan 31, 2012 at 04:15 PM

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p.1 #7 · Magical Paradise Waterfall

^ hahah that emoticon is hilarious!

Thanks for all the great feedback

Feb 02, 2012 at 02:33 PM

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p.1 #8 · Magical Paradise Waterfall

I am not normally a lover of star trails but this is great. Well balanced composition too.
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Feb 03, 2012 at 11:41 AM

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p.1 #9 · Magical Paradise Waterfall

Zak, beautiful and extremely well executed shot the falls in the fg is really awesome. I saw your comment about the Fg rock and IMO it works especially because of its sharpness it grabs you and brings you into the shot. if you don't my sharing some thoughts, I am planning some star trail projects and was curious on your decision to go for 150 sec exposures x10 vs. a shorter exp and more of them . Did you need the extra time fro the light painting results ?Dean

Feb 03, 2012 at 01:10 PM

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p.1 #10 · Magical Paradise Waterfall

DSC01 wrote:
Zak, beautiful and extremely well executed shot the falls in the fg is really awesome. I saw your comment about the Fg rock and IMO it works especially because of its sharpness it grabs you and brings you into the shot. if you don't my sharing some thoughts, I am planning some star trail projects and was curious on your decision to go for 150 sec exposures x10 vs. a shorter exp and more of them . Did you need the extra time fro the light painting results ?Dean

I guess I went with 150 seconds because that was my test shot and it looked about right! I proceeded with my second shot with some light painting which helped out bring out the waterfall so much!

Now some of the shots the waterfall was too blown out so in StarStaX I compressed the sky with the full 10 exposures and the waterfall and down with 4 shots that were nicely exposed. I brought it into photoshop and blended the two layers to each other.

Thanks for the feedback, really appreciate it!
Zak

Feb 04, 2012 at 12:56 AM

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p.1 #11 · Magical Paradise Waterfall

A fairy-tale image Zak. Nicely composed and exposed and a great job with the light painting.

Feb 04, 2012 at 02:14 AM

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p.1 #12 · Magical Paradise Waterfall

Very cool shot.

Feb 05, 2012 at 03:21 PM

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p.1 #13 · Magical Paradise Waterfall

Wow a magical image.

Feb 05, 2012 at 03:42 PM

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p.1 #14 · Magical Paradise Waterfall

Thanks everyone

appreciate it

Feb 05, 2012 at 08:58 PM


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