Death Valley Night

[Timmeh]

I scouted this image in January, and I knew it was going to be technically difficult. I tried the foreground three different ways (light painted, long exposure, and blue hour) and blue hour was the only one that stitched well. 7 vertical 20mm images for sky, 7 for ground (2 each for focus stack). All comments welcome!

Tim

Body and Tail

 

[AlanLichty]

Wow - very nice result. This sounds like an image that could be used to cover a rather large wall. Nicely planned and executed.

 

[BlackRockArt]

I scouted this image in January, and I knew it was going to be technically difficult. I tried the foreground three different ways (light painted, long exposure, and blue hour) and blue hour was the only one that stitched well. 7 vertical 20mm images for sky, 7 for ground (2 each for focus stack). All comments welcome!

Tim

Body and Tail
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Tim, this is a stunning image, the cracked mud foreground is very clean & blends nicely; I love the details in the milky way core. Is that light pollution from nearby town ?

Oliver

 

[JimFox]

Great work Tim. Too much work for me though. I would have just shot it at 14mm and pano cropped it. But my hats off to you for taking that many images and stacking them, I am not surprised the ground was hard to stitch.

The finished result looks great! It’s nice to see the Milky Way finally started to poke its head up a bit before the sun rises.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Nice work Tim. A lot of work for sure but the results speak for it. Well done.

 

[JimFox]

Congrats on the Daily Featured Photo Tim!

@Timmeh

 

[Ben Egbert]

Congrats on a well earned featured post.

 

[Kyle Jones]

Very nice Tim. Great detail and the comp works well with that foreground. I'm planning to start my early season MW attempts in a few weeks.

 

[Timmeh]

Thanks for the comments everyone, and the featured post Jim!

Tim, this is a stunning image, the cracked mud foreground is very clean & blends nicely; I love the details in the milky way core. Is that light pollution from nearby town ?

Oliver

I wouldn't say that it's nearby. If it is from a town, it's Las Vegas, but I suspect it had something to do with creeping dawn.

Great work Tim. Too much work for me though. I would have just shot it at 14mm and pano cropped it. But my hats off to you for taking that many images and stacking them, I am not surprised the ground was hard to stitch.

The finished result looks great! It’s nice to see the Milky Way finally started to poke its head up a bit before the sun rises.

I threw out approximately half of the image by cropping, so I probably could have gotten away with 12mm. Oh well! The grander plan I had would have needed some stitching so I went with my 20mm.

Very nice Tim. Great detail and the comp works well with that foreground. I'm planning to start my early season MW attempts in a few weeks.

The Milky Way awaits, and so far I'm liking its pairing with Venus. Are you in Montana still?

 

[Kyle Jones]

The Milky Way awaits, and so far I'm liking its pairing with Venus. Are you in Montana still?

California at the moment. I'll be in Montana at the end of the month. I already have some early season spots picked out, I just need to be wary of bears.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Great job, Tim. The balance between the sky and the ground is perfect.