milky way

This is one from shooting with Ben at the Skyline Overlook a few weeks back. I was shooting with my Nikon D850 and the Sigma 14mm f1.8 in a wider open area where I could work some pano shots of the Milky Way without issue from the foreground. But I had found this cool set of rocks that I thought...

I have decided to think of Airglow as a Mini Aurora. :) It might be the closest I get to an aurora, and where I used to try and get rid of it when I process the photos now I have decided to embrace it. :rolleyes: This was when Ben, Jeffrey and I got together last week for a fun few days...

This is at the Painted Wall view point in Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Amy came up late, about midnight to meet and shoot a bit of the Milky Way. I had been shooting at the Cross Fisures view point, but was switching to the Painted Wall view point when Amy got there. The only bad thing with the...

Manley Beacon is that iconic peak that is most often seen from Zabriskie Point. When thinking about shooting the Milky Way in Death Valley a week or so ago I was looking for something different as I have shot the Milky Way from Badwater and the Race Track a bunch of times, so as I was thinking...

Here is a Vertical composition from a week or so ago while I was playing out in Death Valley in the Mesquite Sand Dunes. This is from the Sony A6400 with the Samyang 12mm f2.0 that I set up to go vertical because the Milky Way is getting higher sooner in the sky. I was mainly shooting with the...

From a quick run last week in Death Valley. It was pushing it in terms of the Milky Way and the Moon, but I still had an hour or so of darkness to play with the Milky Way in Mesquite Dunes. Looking back on the pano, I am not totally happy now as I should have realized that the left side of the...

This is from last Thursday at the Skyline Overlook. Thanks to Ben for helping me to get there with directions good enough that I could find my way on a moonless night along a dim trail and still find it. :) This is a 4 shot blended pano due to it being a moonless night. The ground layer was...

So for full disclosure, I have to say I prefer the many excellent images of the Milky Way being posted by FW members that show a widefield image soaring over the landscape, often with some lighting (man made or otherwise) that manages to show at little detail in the foreground while still...

This was from a week ago at Joshua Tree. While Arch Rock is super cool, I find the area around it to be very fascinating with lot's of cool shaped rocks and formations. This is one of them, with Arch Rock basically being behind the rocks on the left side of the photo for reference. The Milky...

This was from a few nights ago as I ran out to Joshua Tree to shoot the Milky Way. The moon was setting about 2:30 so that gave me until 4:30 to get some nice moon shots. I ended up spending a majority of that time helping someone else out, so I couldn't focus too much on shooting the Milky Way...

As I mentioned in my Wildflower post I went out to Joshua Tree with the intent to shoot the Milky Way at Arch Rock with the Wildflowers being a little bonus. This one is from the new Sony A6400 and an even newer Samyang 12mm f2.0 that I picked up so that I could use the Sony as an emergency...

Our Focus this Friday is on the Milky Way! Being as this is Milky Way Week, perhaps some of you have been out shooting the Milky Way, I know I hope to get out and capture it tonight. But please post either current or past shots of the Milky Way. Add them to this thread. I will start out with a...

Once the moon had set last week when I was at the Grand Canyon, I turned my eyes toward the Milky Way. I was hoping at Lipan Point I could see more of the Milky Way over the canyon itself, as it was I could only catch the tail of the MW over a canyon wall when aiming East. It's amazing how much...

Earlier I posted a photo from the new Sony A6400 of the Milky Way shot in Monument Valley from the patio of my room at The View Hotel. This one is from my Nikon D850 with the Sigma 14mm f1.8. To me being able to finally look at both of them at 100% on my home computer, the Sony A6400 did a...

I stayed last night at The View hotel in Monument Valley. Besides shooting the stars and later the Milky Way with my Nikon D850 I decided it was a good time to test Astro work with the new Sony A6400. The biggest obstacle with the Sony A6400 was that the kit lens, the 16-50mm doesn’t have a...

This was the original composition I had set up last weekend when I shot this location with Jim. The light on the ground is from the setting moon, which really did give us a nice glow. I left my camera in place until the sky got fully dark and took a second shot for the sky. This image is a blend...

I am glad that Kyle and I both talked each other into meeting at Joshua Tree to shoot the Milky Way on Saturday morning for several reasons. I got to meet @Johnny Chien which was really awesome. It's always great to meet new people who have a love for photography. And then of course I got to...

I was in Palm Springs for the weekend with family, arriving on Thursday during some impressive flash flooding. I got up early (2am) Saturday morning to drive into Joshua Tree and look for stars. I made it to my spot at about 3:15 and some guy named Jim Fox had already taken the best composition...

This is from last November, I ran up to shoot fall colors in Yosemite. This is from Gates of the Valley. The water was quite low, and with that big old tree out of the way of the main viewing area, it is really easy to get out into the middle of the Merced. As I was shooting, I had to deal with...

I think this is one of my better light painting attempts, taken at The Devil's Garden, UT. While I like it, it doesn't feel as real as the non-painted version. Personally I don't like visiting a popular spot where a bunch of people are painting - obviously it intrudes on the experience of others...