Milky Way from Glacier Point

[JimFox]

Just a few days after Oliver @BlackRockArt captured the Milky Way from Glacier Point in Yosemite, I made my way up there as well. I had 3 or 4 places in mind, be decided on Glacier Point as the place to be. It was pretty nice, a few others around, but everyone left about midnight, so I had a nice quiet night by myself.

I captured this at 11:15pm the moon was still up, but was only 16% so it lit up the ground but didn't wash out the Milky Way. The 3 or 4 days after a new moon is my secret sauce to get nice detail on the ground along with a nicely detailed Milky Way without the need of blending in Twilight images, etc. It's nice getting it right in 1 image.

Now this is a pano, it's comprised of 5 horizontal images with lot's of overlap.

Nikon Z6II
Viltrox 16mm f1.8 lens
20 secs
f1.8
ISO 2000

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[Kyle Jones]

Looks perfect Jim!

 

[JimFox]

Looks perfect Jim!

Thanks so much Kyle!

 

[AlanLichty]

Sweet shot - nice balance in the exposure between the ground and the sky.

 

[JimFox]

Sweet shot - nice balance in the exposure between the ground and the sky.

Thanks Alan! Yeah, that's often the trick to get the right balance between the ground and the sky.

 

[BlackRockArt]

Just a few days after Oliver @BlackRockArt captured the Milky Way from Glacier Point in Yosemite, I made my way up there as well. I had 3 or 4 places in mind, be decided on Glacier Point as the place to be. It was pretty nice, a few others around, but everyone left about midnight, so I had a nice quiet night by myself.

I captured this at 11:15pm the moon was still up, but was only 16% so it lit up the ground but didn't wash out the Milky Way. The 3 or 4 days after a new moon is my secret sauce to get nice detail on the ground along with a nicely detailed Milky Way without the need of blending in Twilight images, etc. It's nice getting it right in 1 image.

Now this is a pano, it's comprised of 5 horizontal images with lot's of overlap.

Nikon Z6II
Viltrox 16mm f1.8 lens
20 secs
f1.8
ISO 2000

All comments are welcome,

Jim

View attachment 82321

Brilliant shot

You got it right

Oliver

 

[Michael13]

Gorgeous! A work of art.

 

[JimFox]

Brilliant shot

You got it right

Oliver

Thanks Oliver, that means a lot coming from you! I didn't mean to copy your location, but I have been there before and it's a great spot when you have to hang out all night.

 

[JimFox]

Gorgeous! A work of art.

Thanks Michael, I really appreciate that. I might need to see about printing this one.

 

[MonikaC]

Just super, Jim! Now what are you going to follow that up with?

 

[JimFox]

Just super, Jim! Now what are you going to follow that up with?

Thank you Monika!

I actually do have an even better composition up my sleeve from. A smaller dome near Glacier Point. I am driving to Colorado so it may be a bit before I get to those.

 

[Beth]

gorgeous

 

[JimFox]

gorgeous

Thanks so much! I am happy with how it turned out.

 

[MonikaC]

Thank you Monika!

I actually do have an even better composition up my sleeve from. A smaller dome near Glacier Point. I am driving to Colorado so it may be a bit before I get to those.

What a tease!