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Nice image!
Jim I like how you got the stars blooming out of the top of the tree. Looks like you had clouds too.CraggyMan Wrote
Yep, it was a bust. Nevertheless always fun to get out and wander (read - stumble) about in the desert wilderness near home. Badlands Wilderness near Bend offers great opportunities for framing the stars around ancient and gnarly old junipers. The bonus was spotlighting all the cool wildflowers with our headlamps as we avoided sharp lava rock.
I think once you get the basic settings figured out, the secret is to just take lots and lots of captures. The clouds were moving very fast so every frame was different. Best to just sort them all out later on and zoom in on the best for composition and maybe if you are lucky a couple of meteors might make it in. A intervalometer really aids in this process although I was not using one for this capture with the clouds. Here is one from earlier in the evening which was shot with the before mentioned gizmo after basic settings dialed in.pvstoy said:Jim I like how you got the stars blooming out of the top of the tree. Looks like you had clouds too.
Andy thanks and My gal might have seen that one meteor too. Night time lapse are cool to watch.
Thanks Wandering Sagebrush. Really have not done night photography and just did one to practice. Have not decided to lighten the foreground. I'm not going to do anything with the series, I guess just training..