Hantam Star Circles
I have just returned from a trip to Addo Elephant National Park, the Tankwa Karoo National Park and the Hantam region of South Africa. I took this image at around 1am in the morning as my last exposure of the evening. The lights of the nearest town, about 25km's away accounts for the red horizon on the right side of the image. I used a zebra lastolite reflector and a flash so light the quiver tree's from the right. The image was processed in ACR and CS5 on a 15" MBP. This image has special significance for me as it is my first star circle image and the drive to the forest was a long one with me driving through mud snow and ice to get to the forest in time. At one stage I travelled 30 miles in 2hours.
Camera Details:
Nikon D4
Nikkor 14-24mm f2.8G AF/S lens
Aperture f2.8
ISO 200
Shutter speed, 2743 seconds.
Manfrotto tripod and FOBA superminiball.
If I were to take the image over again, I would have set the ISO at 100. All comments and crits welcome.
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