Published in Sunday Times
Managed to get my photo on page 3 of today's Sunday Times newspaper, including a bit of a write up! I was interviewed by PerthNow's Rochelle Tetlow who did the article for the paper and the online version of Perth Now Sunday Times.
I love the write up, which can be accessed at:
Link to PerthNow article
The text of the article is as follows:
WHILE the rest of us sleep, Will Vrbasso drives through the darkness to capture the dazzling beauty of WA’s night sky.
The photographer takes his stunning night-time panoramas at popular regional WA locations long after the last tourist has left for the day.
He feels like he is exploring a beautiful, lost world — before the dream ends and he’s waking up to his day job again, retraining from engineer to become a high school teacher.
“It’s like returning from Alice’s wonderland,” he said. “There’s no sign of civilisation anywhere and you’re truly alone under the night sky and all the stars.”
For this stunning shot (on right) at Lake Campion, north of Merredin in the Wheatbelt, Mr Vrbasso stitched together 21 individual long exposure images to create a giant panorama.
As he scrambled up a rocky ridge to gain altitude and distance, he sent his brother Richard on to the dry salt pan to hold a camera flash.
“This way I could capture the expanse of the dry lake and better contrast its emptiness with that of the small, solitary figure that wanders in the middle,” he said.
The award-winning Iluka stargazer said his images were less about fancy equipment and more knowing what you can do with the camera you’ve got.
“Camera technology has advanced so fast a mid-level camera with a wide angle lens can start you off,” he explained.
Numerous photographic “panels” are shot in horizontal and vertical sequencing and then stitched together as a panorama. In this way the foreground can be lit up, while a long exposure can be set on the night sky. A long lens sharpens the sparkle of the stars.
An extra trick is a SkyTracker camera mount which is attached to the tripod and which moves the camera at the speed of the stars.
Read more in the article.
