I am glad that Kyle and I both talked each other into meeting at Joshua Tree to shoot the Milky Way on Saturday morning for several reasons. I got to meet @Johnny Chien which was really awesome. It's always great to meet new people who have a love for photography. And then of course I got to hang around in the cold early morning hours with Kyle. 
Kyle posted a Milky Way shot already. He was shooting tight with a 24mm f1.4 I think it was. Well, I went wide as is my normal with the Sigma 14mm f1.8. I could crop this if I chose since I do have the resolution, but I kind of like taking in the whole scene to see the really small window we had to capture this early season Milky Way.
There had been a bright moon, it was a little over half full. We needed to wait for it to set in the west which was about 4am, and also to get low enough below the horizon that it wasn't washing out the Milky Way. But we also had the impending rising of the sun to the east rapidly approaching. So the ability to see the Milky Way was sandwiched in between. You can see the glow to the right which is still the remnant of light reflecting off the moon.
Anyway, here is mine. It is a single shot image. It was shot at ISO 1600 at 15 sec and f1.8.
All comments are welcome.
Jim
Kyle posted a Milky Way shot already. He was shooting tight with a 24mm f1.4 I think it was. Well, I went wide as is my normal with the Sigma 14mm f1.8. I could crop this if I chose since I do have the resolution, but I kind of like taking in the whole scene to see the really small window we had to capture this early season Milky Way.
There had been a bright moon, it was a little over half full. We needed to wait for it to set in the west which was about 4am, and also to get low enough below the horizon that it wasn't washing out the Milky Way. But we also had the impending rising of the sun to the east rapidly approaching. So the ability to see the Milky Way was sandwiched in between. You can see the glow to the right which is still the remnant of light reflecting off the moon.
Anyway, here is mine. It is a single shot image. It was shot at ISO 1600 at 15 sec and f1.8.
All comments are welcome.
Jim
