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A composite image taken last week in the Alabama Hills area of the Owens Valley. This was my second trip down the eastern Sierra and first visit to Alabama Hills.
The techy stuff:
About 40 exposures stacked using StarStax for the star trails. Two additional exposures, taken at sunrise the next morning and blended in PS during post-processing, for everything else.
I used my 24mm TSE on a 5DII for this. The sky is a single frame (with the lens at 10 degrees vertical shift), while the two morning exposures are each comprised of three vertical frames. I merged the exposures first to create the vertical composition, and then blended them, all in PS.
Now the WHY part:
First, I'm venturing into night photography and the evening in question was a good opportunity for it. Secondly, at the time this seemed like an interesting idea for an image of a heavily-photographed place. And lastly, I really didn't want my first photograph here to be of Mobius Arch (which I photographed the next evening in amazing light)!
With all this said, I like the end result, gimmicky though it is. I definitely gain more satisfaction from "quiet" images, and this is a place for them with more time in hand. I will go back, for sure. Regardless, it's fun to create these and this eye candy works well in certain venues.
Comments . thoughts on comp, processing and concept are greatly appreciated.
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