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Thanks all for looking. I like the angle of the first one, pointing up, but he light was just not there. The second is my favorite and the even wider but OOF version would be my favorite. This is about the sky and stars as well as the foreground, so I wanted as much as I could get..
This is a very technical shot. Got to go wide, long exposure to get the stars, bit too long and you see movement. at 24mm 15 seconds is about max.
Anything above ISO640 starts getting too much noise, so I have limits there as well. F4 on these focal lengths will get the subject and stars in focus but the immediate foreground is soft and with this soft light, not much contrast either.
I think the technology is still 5-10 years away before this can be done without a tracking device. But I keep trying.
People like to go on moonless nights to get a dark sky and more stars. But they have to light paint which I don't like at all and refuse to do. Hence I use the moon for foreground and let the stars fend for themselves.
I did not process these because Bens processing is out of tune at FM. My own preference is to use the AWB which is warmer and add some saturation as well as my other processing tricks. Heck I will probably even do some HDR on the foreground.
These shots are fun. You can see your shadow, you can walk without a flashlight, you can actually see those rocks and they do appear red even in the cool moonlight. I love early morning. At age 12, I was delivering newspapers at 4:00 am and became a lifelong morning person.
Edited
I posted the wrong shot here, just another 24-70 shot. Here is the 17TSE I intended to post. Notice I used the AWB for this one. Really oof at 100%, downsizing for web covers a lot of sins.
Edited on Mar 06, 2015 at 12:02 PM · View previous versions
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