While it's sort of a last minute plan, not the best alignment and visibility, but I'm glad the execution went really well. I went up to the top of Cottonwood Pass on Wednesday 6/8, knowing I will have 1 hour of moonless night time, from 2:30am to 3:30am, but the Milky Way could be too high and west by then, so I needed to have plan A (looking southeast from parking lot) and B (little ways back down the road and looking southwest). I got there just in time, 8pm, to capture the sunset, and then set up two different tripods and collected the car lights till 10pm, not too many cars given it's a Wednesday night. Then I went for a nap till 2am to take photos for the Milky Way, moonset at 2:30am. This was the moment of the truth, and I was happy to capture it from both angles. This is the plan B shot, which came out better to line straight up.
It's terrific, and very tastefully edited. I've always wondered why my night sky shots don't come out the way I wanted, then read the amount of work you put into this shot and realized yep, I've never done that haha.
Just curious, did you leave the cameras in place while you waited from 10 pm to 2:30? Just trying to figure out how you aligned the images
kaihuangphotography on June 14th, 2022 at 04:52 UTC »
Top of Cottonwood Pass, Colorado, US
Stack/Blend/Pano
Sony a7iii - 20mm f1.8
Sky - 3 landscape panels of 10 x 15s/f2/iso 2000
Foreground - 1 landscape panels of 90s/f8/iso 640
While it's sort of a last minute plan, not the best alignment and visibility, but I'm glad the execution went really well. I went up to the top of Cottonwood Pass on Wednesday 6/8, knowing I will have 1 hour of moonless night time, from 2:30am to 3:30am, but the Milky Way could be too high and west by then, so I needed to have plan A (looking southeast from parking lot) and B (little ways back down the road and looking southwest). I got there just in time, 8pm, to capture the sunset, and then set up two different tripods and collected the car lights till 10pm, not too many cars given it's a Wednesday night. Then I went for a nap till 2am to take photos for the Milky Way, moonset at 2:30am. This was the moment of the truth, and I was happy to capture it from both angles. This is the plan B shot, which came out better to line straight up.
NTE22 on June 14th, 2022 at 04:56 UTC »
Have you ever tried the Death Valley before? Yes, it’s a blistering heat of despair, but it’s wonderful at night.
joebrizphotos on June 14th, 2022 at 11:17 UTC »
It's terrific, and very tastefully edited. I've always wondered why my night sky shots don't come out the way I wanted, then read the amount of work you put into this shot and realized yep, I've never done that haha.
Just curious, did you leave the cameras in place while you waited from 10 pm to 2:30? Just trying to figure out how you aligned the images