"Milky Way meets sunrise.....part 2....

            Milky way meets sunrise".....part 2

Here is the vertical composition with the commentary repeated with new shooting data.

One of the main reasons for going to Utah for our very brief 4 days was to get a couple of milky way shots. We got very lucky on one early morning. It was the morning of the new moon, which means very dark skies and lots of stars. We had clear skies and no wind. We arrived at our destination along the rim of this overlook at 2:24am. We had scouted our compositions during the day which made it a bit easier, although NOT easy to set up again. Using some lights to illuminate the foreground, we set up 2 compositions....one vertical and one horizontal. We shut off the lights when we were all set up, focused on the stars and began to photograph the night sky. We waited there without ever moving the cameras to capture the first rays of sunlight at sunrise. We refocused and began to shoot our canyon foreground at sunrise. This image is basically 2 images blended together to capture the foreground and milky way together. It's an exposure blend, not a composite. This is done in Photoshop by hand. I do not use any programs for blending images. The camera was never moved during the entire 6 hours that we were there.

Nikon D810 with Tamron 15-30mm F2.8 lens at 15 mm

Sky; 15 images stacked using starry landscape stacker for noise reduction into one image, ISO 10,000, F2.8, 10 seconds.

Foreground: F11, 1/5 sec, ISO 64.

Taken on: March 24, 2020

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Camera: Nikon D810, f/11.0, 1/6 sec, 15mm, ISO 64 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D810
Lens:	TAMRON SP 15-30mm F2.8 Di VC USD A012N
Aperture:	f/11.0
Exposure Time:	0.167 sec (1/6)
Focal Length:	15mm
ISO:	64
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 9.2 (Windows)
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