This year Monsoon season has started off with a bang here in New Mexico.
Here are three of my favorites from the last couple of weeks.
The BW shot of the lightning is also posted in this weeks FM weekly assignment. You may have seen it there.
The Milky Way image at the lake was taken a couple of nights ago and bit of an artistic take since the clouds invaded my shooting. You gotta make work it even if you get thrown a few lemons. In this case the clouds worked OK with the Milky Way since the setting moon and light pollution from Los Alamos helped light them up. The Milky Way was shot for 12 minutes on a tracking mount and blended with the 5 minute exposure of the lake.
Incredible set Klaus! You did a fantastic job on all of these but #2 you took to a new level. The tonalities in that B&W are great!
I recently just attempted my first Milky Way and have new found respect for images like yours.
The time, work and skill to pull off a shot(s) like that are well worth it and you executed it very well.
I'm curious - for shots like these with objects in the FG, is it sufficient to shoot at a small aperture to get adequate DOF for both the FG objects and the sky? In these shots, both the rocks and the stars or clouds seem to be perfectly in focus. Or do you need to blend two shots to get both in focus? I've tried to do a shot like this a while ago and I had a hard time getting the FG in focus while maintaining sufficient sharpness for the distant objects.
I'm curious - for shots like these with objects in the FG, is it sufficient to shoot at a small aperture to get adequate DOF for both the FG objects and the sky? In these shots, both the rocks and the stars or clouds seem to be perfectly in focus. Or do you need to blend two shots to get both in focus? I've tried to do a shot like this a while ago and I had a hard time getting the FG in focus while maintaining sufficient sharpness for the distant objects.
Thanks and on the rock and lake exposure I shot it at f/5.6. The closest rock was about 6' away so the 5.6 did cover the distance when I focused at ~ 8'
The milky way shot was focused right at infinity with F/4
