This was from the Perseids Meter shower last year. I was in the Grand Canyon at the time and I already posted one image from it and a timelapse from it. With this one, I was pointed away from the center of the Perseid Meteor shower, and in all of the several hundred frames I captured that night, not a single one had a meteor in it.
It was close to a new moon, so that meant a deep dark canyon to work with, so going in, I new I would need to shoot some images from the ground, overexposing the sky. So the ground layer here was shot at a 5 minute shutter speed, f2.8 and ISO 1600. The Sky was the normal 25 sec, f2.8 and ISO 4000. It was dark!
In this case, I got there late as I was driving on the way back to California. When I set up, it was pitch dark. I took 4 or 5 images of the ground at the 5 minute setting, nudging the composition a bit to get it looking nice. From there, I switched to my sky settings which of course rendered the ground pitch black. And in hindsight, I do wish I had set up the camera aimed a bit more to the left to capture a bit more of the Milky Way core, but still am pretty happy with the way this turned out.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
It was close to a new moon, so that meant a deep dark canyon to work with, so going in, I new I would need to shoot some images from the ground, overexposing the sky. So the ground layer here was shot at a 5 minute shutter speed, f2.8 and ISO 1600. The Sky was the normal 25 sec, f2.8 and ISO 4000. It was dark!
In this case, I got there late as I was driving on the way back to California. When I set up, it was pitch dark. I took 4 or 5 images of the ground at the 5 minute setting, nudging the composition a bit to get it looking nice. From there, I switched to my sky settings which of course rendered the ground pitch black. And in hindsight, I do wish I had set up the camera aimed a bit more to the left to capture a bit more of the Milky Way core, but still am pretty happy with the way this turned out.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
