Morkel Erasmus
07-16-2015, 11:05 PM
This surely won't be everyone's cup of tea, but here goes...:bg3:
I was photographing this dry shrub under the Milky Way in the Karoo desert of South Africa earlier this year. After getting the standard "static" starscape I normally attempt, I started playing around a bit with in-camera techniques.
For this photo, I started at 14mm focal length, performed light painting to get the bush sharp and lit up, and merely zoomed the lens in to 24mm gradually during the last 10 seconds of the 30 second exposure. You need to be very steady and gradual in this process.
Techs:
Nikon D800
Nikkor 14-24mm f2.8
f2.8 | 30 seconds | ISO-3200
I was photographing this dry shrub under the Milky Way in the Karoo desert of South Africa earlier this year. After getting the standard "static" starscape I normally attempt, I started playing around a bit with in-camera techniques.
For this photo, I started at 14mm focal length, performed light painting to get the bush sharp and lit up, and merely zoomed the lens in to 24mm gradually during the last 10 seconds of the 30 second exposure. You need to be very steady and gradual in this process.
Techs:
Nikon D800
Nikkor 14-24mm f2.8
f2.8 | 30 seconds | ISO-3200