This is the Rhyolite Ghost Town that is on the East side of Death Valley. It's fun little place. It only has about 5 buildings left, but the ones that are have some interesting shapes.
I messed up by getting here with a 40% moon. I had meant to get there when the moon was only 25% which is the max that I usually will shoot the Milky Way under. Ideal is 10 to 20%. But anyway, I got held up leaving my Daughters in Northern Colorado with some heavy thunderstorms, and so somewhere in there I was off by a day in my head. Once I got there and realized the moon was going to be way brighter then I wanted as it washes out the Milky Way too much. I just had to go with what I had, I couldn't cry over spilt milk, it was just really fun being there with no one else around. It might have had something to do with the 105 degree day time temps, but whatever, it was just really nice with no one else around.
I have some timelapses I am working on but this is the first single image I am working on from the timelapse.
I had been to Rhyolite years ago, and I don't recall if they had all of the lights around the town. At the North edge of town there is a big building, looks like it was a hotel or a mansion, I need to look up and see what it was. But anyway, it had 3 or 4 security lights around it, and at night, even though the lights were hundreds of feet away, they light up the North facing sides of all of the ruins in the town. So I didn't have to do any light painting on my own.
Nikon Z8
Laowa 10mm f2.8 Zero-D
25 secs
f2.8
ISO 3200
All comments are welcome,
Jim
PS. When the MW was on the left side of the building as I had framed it, the moon was simply washing out the MW too much. It didn't gain some detail after the moon set until it was behind the building sadly. So I need to get back there next year, and try this again.
I messed up by getting here with a 40% moon. I had meant to get there when the moon was only 25% which is the max that I usually will shoot the Milky Way under. Ideal is 10 to 20%. But anyway, I got held up leaving my Daughters in Northern Colorado with some heavy thunderstorms, and so somewhere in there I was off by a day in my head. Once I got there and realized the moon was going to be way brighter then I wanted as it washes out the Milky Way too much. I just had to go with what I had, I couldn't cry over spilt milk, it was just really fun being there with no one else around. It might have had something to do with the 105 degree day time temps, but whatever, it was just really nice with no one else around.
I have some timelapses I am working on but this is the first single image I am working on from the timelapse.
I had been to Rhyolite years ago, and I don't recall if they had all of the lights around the town. At the North edge of town there is a big building, looks like it was a hotel or a mansion, I need to look up and see what it was. But anyway, it had 3 or 4 security lights around it, and at night, even though the lights were hundreds of feet away, they light up the North facing sides of all of the ruins in the town. So I didn't have to do any light painting on my own.
Nikon Z8
Laowa 10mm f2.8 Zero-D
25 secs
f2.8
ISO 3200
All comments are welcome,
Jim
PS. When the MW was on the left side of the building as I had framed it, the moon was simply washing out the MW too much. It didn't gain some detail after the moon set until it was behind the building sadly. So I need to get back there next year, and try this again.
