Got it done, finished up the story. The final installment is here -
Death Valley - Spring 2015 - Part Five
Hope you have fun coming along with us.
Death Valley - Spring 2015 - Part Five
Hope you have fun coming along with us.
Agreed. That photo is stunning!I think you have another winner for the TCM Calendar.
Paul, the full moon is very bright and makes wonderful shadows in nice clean dry air. The photo was taken at 9:05 pm. The moon was still fairly low angle but I did wait long enough after sunset for the sky to darken so the stars were bright. Used my new wide angle lens that Mr. Sagebrush recommended, big aperture that can pull in lots of light. f/2.8 ISO 200 30 second exposure. I could have doubled the iso to 400 and cut the exposure to 15 seconds and got less star trails or gone to iso 800 and cut that in half. I know, next time I'll try it and look at the results. There are photographers here on WTW much more knowledgeable and skilled than I am with initial capture and then post processing. I'm just having lots of fun.PaulT said:Could you give some hints on the exposure? HDR dual exposure? ISO 25000? moon shadows? Time of day?
All that soft warm color and stars too?
Thanks for posting it and ditto on the TCM calendar entry.
Paul
Interesting. I made a guess that you were stopped down (f8), with a much higher ISO to get an image that sharp. I guessed right on the shutter.ski3pin said:Glad you all enjoyed the story!
Paul, the full moon is very bright and makes wonderful shadows in nice clean dry air. The photo was taken at 9:05 pm. The moon was still fairly low angle but I did wait long enough after sunset for the sky to darken so the stars were bright. Used my new wide angle lens that Mr. Sagebrush recommended, big aperture that can pull in lots of light. f/2.8 ISO 200 30 second exposure. I could have doubled the iso to 400 and cut the exposure to 15 seconds and got less star trails or gone to iso 800 and cut that in half. I know, next time I'll try it and look at the results. There are photographers here on WTW much more knowledgeable and skilled than I am with initial capture and then post processing. I'm just having lots of fun.
2 x 2!highz said:Thanks for another grand trip report. Those petroglyphs in the canyon are something else. And yeah, that moonlit photo is a real winner!
Foy, elevation at the playa is 3715 and the top of Ubehebe is 5678 (yes we had fun making up goofy rhymes), so just a little under 2000 feet gain. When we were on the racetrack, we talked about how cool it must have been for those to witness the event!Foy said:What's the elevation change between the summit of U-Peak and the playa surface on the Racetrack? Looks to be several thousand feet.
Can you imagine the thrill the geomorphologists felt when they witnessed the actual formation of the grooves on the playa recently?
Foy