Milky Way Astro-seascapes & landscapes

[DaveC Oz]

Stacked 20x6 sec shot of Walhalla Rail Bridge. A difficult capture with bright security lighting around the bridge. The concrete reflecting the light combined with an otherwise reasonably dark sky and background made exposure settings a bit experimental.

• Viltrox 16mm F1.8 FE
• 16.0 mm
• ƒ/2.5
• 120 sec
• ISO 5000

 

[DaveC Oz]

20 X 8 second exposure of Muckleford Bridge on the Goldfields Historic Rail line.
First with moonlight only, then lit with my Godox LED light tube from approx 30m down the line @ 2% power

• Viltrox 16mm F1.8 FE
• 16.0 mm
• ƒ/2.7999999523163
• 160 sec
• ISO 5000

• Viltrox 16mm F1.8 FE
• 16.0 mm
• ƒ/2.7999999523163
• 160 sec
• ISO 5000

 

[THXGEEK]

Wow! I really like these!

 

[alexpler]

20 X 8 second exposure of Muckleford Bridge on the Goldfields Historic Rail line.
First with moonlight only, then lit with my Godox LED light tube from approx 30m down the line @ 2% powerView attachment 77406View attachment 77405

Both are amazing but I think the 2nd shots looks more impactful and the colors are pleasing too.

 

[DaveC Oz]

Wow! I really like these!

Thankyou

 

[DaveC Oz]

Both are amazing but I think the 2nd shots looks more impactful and the colors are pleasing too.

Thankyou, I also prefer the illuminated bridge shot. I took the moonlit shots as an experiment as I was packing my LED'S away

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

Agreed; its funny that the second shot, with its artificial illumination, has a more natural feel to the shadows and blends well with the scene.

 

[DaveC Oz]

Multi-stacked, multi-row panorama, Blue Rock Dam near Willow Grove. 17 X 10 stacked 8 second exposures total of 170 shots in two rows

• Viltrox 16mm F1.8 FE
• 16.0 mm
• ƒ/2
• 80 sec
• ISO 5000

 

[DaveC Oz]

A single stacked image (10 X 8s) taken near the other end of the lake to the previous shot later in the night

• Viltrox 16mm F1.8 FE
• 16.0 mm
• ƒ/1.7999999523163
• 88 sec
• ISO 4000

 

[DaveC Oz]

On Sunday I revisited Blue Rock dam with my star tracker. I picked up the tracker nearly two years ago, but have been concentrating on leaning to shoot and edit without the additional complication of blending stationary and tracked images. For a first effort I'm fairly happy with it.

Composite of two images each 130 seconds in length. Both from the same location. A tracked sky shot - 130sec, ISO 1600, f2.8, blended with an untracked foreground shot 130sec, ISO 800, f8.

Adjusted and blended using ON1 Photo Raw 2024

• Viltrox 16mm F1.8 FE
• 16.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 130 sec
• ISO 800

 

[THXGEEK]

Nice shots, Dave!

What model tracker are you using?