Lonely Places | Photo Lanscape Dunia

Another from my recent trip to the Pinnacles in the Nambung National Park Western Australia. The National Park is littered by these structures - with many standing separate from the others. A bit like life doing wide-field astrophotography - lots of late nights typically by myself or at most very few. In this instance (like most of my shoots) was by myself - and was able to do several technique tests including my light pollution filter (not in any of these images). This was a specific test of moon luminosity - taken just 5-10 minutes before moon dawn at 50% luminosity. Moon luminosity at the horizon tends to have lower brightness (just like a sunrise). Shortly after this, the sky started to go blue with the same settings - so I would have probably reduced the ISO to 3200. As the moon rises, the milky way would have been blown out by the moon. It does start to look darker at this time as the eyes adjust to the sky getting slightly brighter. With the moon rise - just like pre-dawn - there is a little bit of airglow that occurs, but not much compared to the sun. Not too happy with the pre-moon light - it's pretty flat. My preferred lighting is crescent moon lighting, that may be hard light, but adds more shadows and textures. This is the "normal" archway milkyway mosaic/panorama - using 26 images in the image. I've discussed a few different types of mosaics/panoramas that I've been using on my blog here - http://ift.tt/1q7DRuN

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