Morning Cloud, Moody Sky
A morning walk on the northern beaches of Burlington.
Water Drops
Morning water drops, Starr Farm Park in Burlington
Intensity
Lake Champlain Sunset
A stitched panorama of the sun setting over Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks.
Garden Walk
Spent some time in the garden this morning.
Bokehnacea
Testing out a wonderful new lens – a Sigma Art 35mm f1.4 – the the garden made for a good first subject.
Echinacea:
Lavender:
Blueberries:
Milky Way, Sugar Hill Reservoir, Vermont
A slight edit and re-processing of my Milky Way over Sugar Hill image. Learning so much, so quickly on how to bring out the night sky.
Tracked Milky Way
I re-processed my first attempt at tracking for night sky shots.
The sky is very very very large.
We are very very very small.
Billions of stars. And all that space in between.
Mind bending.
Milky Way, Sugar Hill Reservoir, Vermont
A learning curve, for sure. This mosaic / panorama is 120 images, 4 shots each from 30 camera positions. Each image has been stacked on top of each other and aligned to mean out some of the noise of shooting ISO 1600 for 30 seconds each shot. It took well over an hour to shoot the 30 camera positions – 4 shots, move, shoot 4 shots, etc., including shots I dod not use at the edges for overlap. As I was operating and moving the camera those wispy clouds were moving though the scene, which added quite a wrinkle to processing.
After stacking the images I stitched 30 of the composites into this image with AutoPano Giga, then processed in Lightroom to edit for color, brightness, and noise.
I made this with my little Canon M6 with the EFM 22 f/2 lens @ f2.8 for 30 seconds each frame, ISO 1600. The camera mounted to a Pano / Nodal head atop a Vixen Polarie star tracker which points at the north star and rotates at the same speed as the stars. The full size, original image is 10,343 pixels wide x 12,929 pixels tall.