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It looks like we could have had a FM Landscape meeting up at Mt Rainier if we had planned it. It is really great to see everyone's take on a very grand mountain. I was up there last week and spent a lot of time roaming around Paradise. It had been a few years since I had been there so it was fun to renew old memories.

This is a two shot horizontal pano of Mt Rainier, one for the foreground after sunset as the twilight started to fade, and then a few minutes later I started a sequence of shots for the star trails. This has 34 shots for the sky of 30 seconds each. There was a half moon still up at this point to help light up the mountain, but I think by starting earlier with the star trails it added some light to blending of the scene as well.

There was some incredible meteor showers during that time also, I also had my D600 set up to focus more on Milky Way and the Meteors, but those are for processing another day...

All comments are welcome,

Jim
Aug 19, 2013 at 02:53 PM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Twilights Last Gleaming


Beautiful, intense colors!

I'd love to see you put up a tutorial on your star photography technique, yo always seem to nail it!
Aug 19, 2013 at 03:24 PM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Twilights Last Gleaming


fantastic colors, i love the blue flowers in the foreground. The star trails are really nice, even with half a moon!

Jason
Aug 19, 2013 at 03:43 PM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Twilights Last Gleaming


Beautiful image Jim! Wel done. The colors are fantastic. Thank you for sharing.


Aug 19, 2013 at 03:54 PM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Twilights Last Gleaming


This is were well done. Thanks for sharing, Jim
Aug 19, 2013 at 04:13 PM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Twilights Last Gleaming


That is quite wild, Jim! Almost photo art.
Aug 19, 2013 at 04:32 PM
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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Twilights Last Gleaming


Awesome image. You mentioned it was a 2 shot horizontal pano? Is there another one I am not seeing?
Aug 19, 2013 at 04:55 PM
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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Twilights Last Gleaming


pretty wild shot
Aug 19, 2013 at 05:00 PM
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camboman wrote:
Beautiful, intense colors!

I'd love to see you put up a tutorial on your star photography technique, yo always seem to nail it!

Thanks so much Michael, I am glad you liked it! Doing a tutorial is something I should consider as I do really like doing the star shots. In the mean time, Steve Perry has a cool video tutorial on how to do star trails that is very informative.

Jim
Aug 19, 2013 at 05:06 PM
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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Twilights Last Gleaming


roguecoolman wrote:
fantastic colors, i love the blue flowers in the foreground. The star trails are really nice, even with half a moon!

Jason

Hey Jason, thanks so much. I didn't realize until I assembled it how much the blue flowers in the foreground would balance with the blue cast of the night sky.

Jim
Aug 19, 2013 at 05:07 PM
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Sneakyracer wrote:
Awesome image. You mentioned it was a 2 shot horizontal pano? Is there another one I am not seeing?

Hey Ken,

I am glad you liked the shot! I didn't explain myself real well here I see. This was two horizontal shots, one for the foreground and then one for the sky, though the sky shot was the series of stacked shots. The two horizontal shots were then stitched one below the other. The end result was a 4:5 format shot as you see here, but seeing as it was two 36mp shots stitched, that probably puts it up in the 60mp range of a shot considering the overlap.

Does that make sense? Hopefully I didn't make it even more confusing...

Jim
Aug 19, 2013 at 05:11 PM
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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · Twilights Last Gleaming


Lovely image Jim.


Aug 19, 2013 at 05:11 PM
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JimFox wrote:
Hey Ken,

I am glad you liked the shot! I didn't explain myself real well here I see. This was two horizontal shots, one for the foreground and then one for the sky, though the sky shot was the series of stacked shots. The two horizontal shots were then stitched one below the other. The end result was a 4:5 format shot as you see here, but seeing as it was two 36mp shots stitched, that probably puts it up in the 60mp range of a shot considering the overlap.

Does that make sense? Hopefully I didn't make it even more...Show more →

Oh, got it!

Did you use a PC-E lens? or did you pan up? Thx. Looks nice. Glad it worked out, those are lots of shots to process.
Aug 19, 2013 at 05:44 PM
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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · Twilights Last Gleaming


Wow - really great star trail image! Very well conceived and executed.


Aug 20, 2013 at 09:00 AM
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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · Twilights Last Gleaming


Great shot Jim. There seems to be a flurry of Rainier shots recently and I like the unique perspective of this one. Well done.
Aug 20, 2013 at 09:20 AM
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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · Twilights Last Gleaming


Great composition here, Jim. I love the wildflowers in the foreground which leads to beautiful Rainier and the star trails. As usual, great work!

-Nick
Aug 20, 2013 at 10:31 AM
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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · Twilights Last Gleaming


This came out awesome Jim! Star trails are something I've been wanting to try Maybe one day. Still looking forward to the shot with the golden cloud at the base. Keep up the great work nice job man!


Aug 20, 2013 at 11:13 AM
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p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · Twilights Last Gleaming


Very nice Jim (as usual). You are mastering this craft!
The night shots you've been posting are "stellar!"



I almost want a black light!
Aug 20, 2013 at 11:26 AM
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p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · Twilights Last Gleaming


Wow Jim. Remarkable shot!

Phil
Aug 20, 2013 at 12:50 PM
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p.1 #20 · p.1 #20 · Twilights Last Gleaming


Very cool shot, Jim. Nice vantage point, with the North Celestial Pole and Rainier.

Eric
Aug 20, 2013 at 01:32 PM
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