Shooting the Stars

Gallery: Man & NaturePosted June 15, 2010306 views8 comments

Otago Peninsula, New Zealand

Just to give a sense of scale to this amazing beach we visited, here's Winnie photographing from a rock. See my seascape shot in ESS here
http://www.naturephotographers.net/imagecritique/ic.cgi?a=vp&pr=149606&CGISESSID=4b56893054d43b4284913baa7e6a0574&u=10662

Canon 5DMkII, 16-35mm 2.8L, ISO 800, f4, 30s.

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on June 15, 2010 at 6:52 AM

The vertical comp and Winnie for reference certainly conveys the sense of scale. Lovely starlit sky. Outstanding.

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Comment posted by Kurt Budliger on June 15, 2010 at 10:00 AM

Beautiful set of elements and the perspective really establishes a sense of scale. Nicely done.

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Comment posted by Stan Rose on June 15, 2010 at 10:42 AM

What a terrific shot! I bet this would look great in a big print.

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Comment posted by Michael Anderson on June 16, 2010 at 4:33 AM

Wow, so those rocks really were THAT big! What an amazing place to discover. I love your image on ESS from here. Very striking!

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Comment posted by Rick Lundh on June 16, 2010 at 5:32 PM

Alot of noise in this image, but what a unique portrait. I like it!

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Comment posted by Vincent Grafhorst on June 20, 2010 at 1:36 PM

Hi KK, cool image! It looks very noisy though for ISO800; my guess is you underexposed? I have been doing quite a few of these star images lately and I always had to pump up the ISO to 1600 or 3200 (even at f/2.8) to get proper exposure. Did you underexpose deliberately?

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Comment posted by Kevin McNeal on June 20, 2010 at 9:53 PM

I am really liking this perspective from down low looking straight up. The addition of the stars really give it a out of world feeling to it.

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Comment posted by Kah Kit Yoong on June 21, 2010 at 12:45 AM

Thanks for the comments. This was very much a grab shot so I didn't think too much about the exposure. I just wanted to get the shot done while Winnie was motionless and I was planning for the composition which you see in ESS. There was a compromise too of getting more DOF by using f4 rather than 2.8 which would have been less noisy.

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