Organ Pipe and Milky Way

[Walker Noe]

I captured this single exposure in Organ Pipe National Monument, southern Arizona. Happy to capture the cactus, Mars, and the Milky Way.

Nikon D750
Tamron 15-30mm
Light painting with iPhone flashlight
ISO6400
25 seconds
f2.8

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

I like the composition. I think the image not task sharp. I could use a little more sharpening or It could be due to motion from wind.

Thanks for sharing.

[John Mack]

Nice astro image. The light painting turned out quite nice. The comp works for me as well.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Good idea I lik ethe image but the cactus does not look sharp to me, did you manually focus??

[Don Railton]

pretty much agree with all of the above..

[Andrew McLachlan]

Agree with the previous comments as well. My guess is that your were close to the cactus and focused to infinity for the stars hence the reason the cactus is not sharp. Ideally a late evening capture of the landscape blended with the starry night sky would have been the best approach to gain sharpness throughout...a technique I have not yet tried myself, but will be doing several times over the next couple of months to perfect the technique.