Cyclops Arch Milky Way

[JimFox]

I ran up to the Alabama Hills in the Eastern Sierra on Monday. They are home to over 100 named arches, and Cyclops is one of them. I will post a couple of day time photos from my phone later, but I am having an itch for the Milky Way, so I had to get back here and get my images processed.

I had 3 cameras capturing timelapses from 3 different angles, and then there was this one camera I kept free and could move around and capture different compositions as I felt like it.

I did stick a couple of low level lights in the inside of the arch, the light was so low, that by eye you could barely pick up a glow, but with a 20 second exposure they lit it up very nicely.

Nikon Z6II
Viltrox 16mm f1.8
ISO 3200
20 secs
f1.8

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[AlanLichty]

Makes a fun image with the MW seemingly coming out of the glow below the arch.

 

[Kyle Jones]

Nicely set up! I like the glow in the arch.

 

[BlackRockArt]

I ran up to the Alabama Hills in the Eastern Sierra on Monday. They are home to over 100 named arches, and Cyclops is one of them. I will post a couple of day time photos from my phone later, but I am having an itch for the Milky Way, so I had to get back here and get my images processed.

I had 3 cameras capturing timelapses from 3 different angles, and then there was this one camera I kept free and could move around and capture different compositions as I felt like it.

I did stick a couple of low level lights in the inside of the arch, the light was so low, that by eye you could barely pick up a glow, but with a 20 second exposure they lit it up very nicely.

Nikon Z6II
Viltrox 16mm f1.8
ISO 3200
20 secs
f1.8

All comments are welcome,

Jim

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Jim, this is the perfect level of lighting.

Too often in many photos I have seen, where the foreground lighting is so bright that defies physics.

Your post processing is very pleasing too.

Oliver

 

[JimFox]

Makes a fun image with the MW seemingly coming out of the glow below the arch.

Thanks Alan. It was fun, and the shape changes so much as you move around it, so I have a lot more of these.

 

[JimFox]

Nicely set up! I like the glow in the arch.

I appreciate that Kyle. The glow turned out really nice, I had forgotten my regular Low Level Lighting in Colorado, so I had to do with some makeshift lighting. I started off with a Headlamp on low covered with layers of white duct tape. And then I realized I had some light up ballons in one of my bags (don't ask how ) And so I got a yellow colored one to add to the other light. Since it was so light I could hide it and it set very nice on the smallest of ledges.

 

[JimFox]

Jim, this is the perfect level of lighting.

Too often in many photos I have seen, where the foreground lighting is so bright that defies physics.

Your post processing is very pleasing too.

Oliver

Thanks Oliver, much appreciated. This would be a fun place for workshops for you, if you haven't added the Alabama Hills to your list.