I normally use the stabilized Fuji zoom for this type of photography but wanted a few to post to this great thread. It would have been a breeze with your Z6.
Another night sky from the High Sierra. This was looking south from a place called Darwin Bench into the part of Evolution Valley where Evolution Lake is located. Camera sitting on a rock on the ground, angled to get maximum sky into the 16mm/f3.5 FOV, which also means maximum edge distortion, but the stars don't care.
I spent the next night on top of Muir Pass, where I met a few other "sierraphiles" who had the same idea. Here a liquid fuel stove is being lit for cooking duty. The person in the door was on an 80 day trek through the Sierra. I so need to retire, because every year I feel my time spent up there is barely a warmup trip.
As all other MF images from this trip, this is the 16mm f/3.5 AI
f/8.0 1/160s ISO 64
Location, location, location You can't take a bad photo up there. Overview of the pass with hut here. All the sunset shots I took are with the 24-85mm VR though, so see the MF shooting AF thread on occasion for those.
saph wrote:
Amazing series from your Sierra hike Peter. The Milky Way is superb. Wonder if that streak is a meteorite or a satellite.
Scott, pleasant memories from fall.
The streak likely is one of the Iridium satellites. I've seen a few other images taken by people who know their night sky and that is what they said about very much identical looking streaks at that shutter speed.
In Elon Musk's space internet future, you'll likely have a dozen or more streaks in any such image. As much as that would ruin such images, I do look forward to having good internet off grid, which is how I want to retire out west somewhere.
Lovely pix, Peter
There are so many wonderful places out west. Whether it's short day hikes or longer through treks, its hard to go wrong, whichever state you choose - and they are all different with their own character. So, really you owe it to yourself to explore them all!
DeltaSigma wrote:
Managed to find an hour to play with an Xmas present - an A3 LED light box that is less than 10mm thick. Produces a nice bright uniform light across the surface. Not a bad performer given the low cost.
Anyway, the colourful gin bottles just had to be explored! Used the 28/2.8 AI-S
graytrekker wrote:
Lovely pix, Peter
There are so many wonderful places out west. Whether it's short day hikes or longer through treks, its hard to go wrong, whichever state you choose - and they are all different with their own character. So, really you owe it to yourself to explore them all!
I've been going west whenever I have enough time for a proper getaway for over 30 years now. I've seen all states and most parks. There are a few clear favorites I like to visit, although I am not sure I need to live close to that area. Just a day's drive is close enough. Idaho in the woods, Klammath county in Oregon, anywhere in Owens Valley, who knows.
pburke wrote:
The streak likely is one of the Iridium satellites. I've seen a few other images taken by people who know their night sky and that is what they said about very much identical looking streaks at that shutter speed.
In Elon Musk's space internet future, you'll likely have a dozen or more streaks in any such image. As much as that would ruin such images, I do look forward to having good internet off grid, which is how I want to retire out west somewhere.
I am with you. I keep getting retirement planning email from work. Maybe they are trying to tell me something
