Night 2016 - IMG_7175
SKU:
"Monuments to the Core"
A few hours before this shot I was at work in an ordinary office in the city (actually Rio Tinto's remote mining operations center). A few hours later I'm here at my favourite nightscape location at the Pinnacles in Nambung national park, Western Australia - beholding the core of the galaxy rising above the desert and monoliths.
This is my favourite time of year, as the milky way's core is close to the horizon and I can use my higher zoom lenses without an impractical number of shots / mosaic (in this case an 85mm prime lens). The higher the zoom, the more "dominating" it makes the galaxy appear in the sky (i.e. bigger).
Still, even when the core is this low on the horizon I needed 15 shots because of the relatively high zoom, 3 x 5. The foreground shots were taken with a static mount, and then I turned on the tracking mount (iOptron) which is definitely required to take the remaining shots of the sky without causing star trails. With a time delay, I ran into the foreground with my flash to try and light up the foreground a little.
Taken through an 85mm f/1.2 (@f/2.8) prime lens using a standard Canon EOS6D DSLR. 15 shots at ISO3200 for 30sec each. Stitching of the shots was done using PTGui Pro, and processed in Adobe Photoshop.
Oh...and its my birthday today, so if you don't like my photo you can maybe like the fact that I've made it to this age...:)
| 2016-05-09 | Nambung National Park, Western Australia | Canon EOS6D | 85mm | f/2.8 | iOptron mount | ISO3200 | 30sec | 15 x panels |
A few hours before this shot I was at work in an ordinary office in the city (actually Rio Tinto's remote mining operations center). A few hours later I'm here at my favourite nightscape location at the Pinnacles in Nambung national park, Western Australia - beholding the core of the galaxy rising above the desert and monoliths.
This is my favourite time of year, as the milky way's core is close to the horizon and I can use my higher zoom lenses without an impractical number of shots / mosaic (in this case an 85mm prime lens). The higher the zoom, the more "dominating" it makes the galaxy appear in the sky (i.e. bigger).
Still, even when the core is this low on the horizon I needed 15 shots because of the relatively high zoom, 3 x 5. The foreground shots were taken with a static mount, and then I turned on the tracking mount (iOptron) which is definitely required to take the remaining shots of the sky without causing star trails. With a time delay, I ran into the foreground with my flash to try and light up the foreground a little.
Taken through an 85mm f/1.2 (@f/2.8) prime lens using a standard Canon EOS6D DSLR. 15 shots at ISO3200 for 30sec each. Stitching of the shots was done using PTGui Pro, and processed in Adobe Photoshop.
Oh...and its my birthday today, so if you don't like my photo you can maybe like the fact that I've made it to this age...:)
| 2016-05-09 | Nambung National Park, Western Australia | Canon EOS6D | 85mm | f/2.8 | iOptron mount | ISO3200 | 30sec | 15 x panels |
