Best on black. The clouds lightened so I went out to shoot the stars again. This spot has a huge blow hole that many risk their lives to go shoot at sunset. Not me. My balance is too precarious and I value my life. But there are some viewing platforms that felt safe even with huge surf last night. I liked the little stream coming into the ocean so I composed around it instead of the blow hole. The light on the horizon and the color in the clouds is from a crab boat with his light on. This was 12 images stacked to remove noise.
Thanks for your visits, comments, suggestions, favs
Are you ready for when Saturn and another planet come together this month? (i may have names of planets wrong but I know I saw an article in Washington Post and thought of you!)
@samae you are so kind...well, first you need dark skies and then an ocean doesn’t hurt. I recently bought a star tracker for photography called Move shoot move. You put it on your tripod and the camera on a ball head on it. It moves with The North Star so you can take long (this was 1 1/2 minutes, f 2.8, ISO 800) exposures without the stars beginning to trail and allowing less ISO and therefore less noise. It has taken some learning but I feel as if I am beginning to be able to use it. I took foreground without the device so it would be sharp and not move with the tracker and then blended the images. If you’d like more tips, let me know and what you’d like to learn
Such stars! Such clarity! The composition is so effective and I am glad you didn't risk your life for Thor's Well! That boat with light is well positioned as if you had managed to communicate precisely where you wanted it to be.
