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Mt Jefferson

by Daniel Rappaport

Gallery: LandscapePosted August 24, 2014345 views11 comments
From Jefferson Park. Canon 5DMk2, 16-35mm at 16mm. Iso 400, f2.8, 2 images, 5 minutes each.
I used a clock drive for this - Skytracker. 2 images merged, the sky with the clock drive on, the mountain and foreground with it off. Merging was a challenge because of the movement of the earth over 5 minutes, but a real treat to work with the sky w/o so much noise. A fun toy.

Comments

11 comments
Comment posted by Ken Smith on August 24, 2014 at 9:38 PM
Excellent! The sky and land show the exquisite balance of light, shadows, colors, and lack of noise that could only be achieved by identical settings. and the tracker. Hauling the tracker appears well worth the effort! Lovely …downright cool...seeing the crisp details of the stars. The difficulty is how to handle the water reflection… a third exposure using the tracker in mirror image motion seems complicated….or do the easy alternative...just crank up to 3200 ISO and shoot for 30 sec… then blend. Either way...Well done!
Registered on September 5, 2008, 449 Posts, 2444 Comments
Comment posted by Bill Reid on August 24, 2014 at 10:29 PM
Great job on this Daniel. Very nice comp and your sky looks great. Real nice light and processing. :toast:
Registered on January 27, 2013, 65 Posts, 2460 Comments
Comment posted by Joseph Campisi on August 24, 2014 at 11:20 PM
Love that sky Daniel! I still see some noise in the reflection, but that's minor. Great image!
Registered on November 24, 2008, 304 Posts, 3211 Comments
Comment posted by Tony Prower on August 25, 2014 at 12:50 PM
Beautiful composition. Great exposure and a nice natural result.
Registered on February 5, 2012, 24 Posts, 167 Comments
Comment posted by Paul Breitkreuz on August 25, 2014 at 3:19 PM
Excellent work on this one, Daniel. I do not do any night photography, but I do appreciate the expertise to get results such as this. Wonderful shot(s)..... :biggrin:
Registered on February 25, 2006, 525 Posts, 8448 Comments
Comment posted by Preston Birdwell on August 25, 2014 at 3:36 PM
This is excellent. Nice detail and color, and I appreciate the lack of noise. The composition is excellent--nicely balanced and clean.

--P
Registered on November 1, 2003, 471 Posts, 5188 Comments
Comment posted by Dan Kearl on August 25, 2014 at 7:46 PM
The sky is terrific, as nice as I have seen in a star photo.
The lack of noise and thus NR really makes the milky way pop and look very natural.
Enough light on the land to work although at iso400, you should be able to tweak a bit more light.
Very nice work......
Registered on September 2, 2013, 209 Posts, 1514 Comments
Comment posted by Jack Brauer on August 26, 2014 at 2:17 PM
Lovely night shot and reflection! There's a bit of CCW tilt which could probably be easily corrected to get the peak reflection in alignment.
Registered on September 12, 2005, 40 Posts, 627 Comments
Comment posted by Harry Lichtman on August 27, 2014 at 8:59 AM
A beautiful night view. I just took my first star image the other night, and found that reducing the color slider during RAW in ACR really cleaned up the noise similar to what I am seeing in the reflection area in particular. You could try opening this image in ACR if you use that and play with the color NR slider, or working with the original RAW again. Really nice spot. :toast:

Edit : I'm curious, was this taken with Live View on? May account for additional noise from what I have been reading.
Registered on September 17, 2010, 304 Posts, 3507 Comments
Comment posted by Daniel Rappaport on August 27, 2014 at 9:05 PM
Harry, thanks for the comment. I used live-view to frame and focus before it got dark but it was pretty worthless when the shots were taken, so it was off. I didn't need to worry about mirror slap shake in such a prolonged exposure. I'll certainly try your trick for re-importing the raw file of the reflection desaturated, and do a re-composite.
Registered on September 9, 2009, 294 Posts, 2006 Comments
Comment posted by John Williams on August 27, 2014 at 9:22 PM
I really need to get a clock drive if I keep playing with night images. (I love the option for those times when you get skunked on cloud cover for sunrise/sunset.) This is wonderful Daniel!
Registered on September 6, 2007, 221 Posts, 5985 Comments