Badlands Milky way before the smoke

Hilary Bralove
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Badlands Milky way before the smoke
Badlands Milky way before the smoke

Milky way over the Badlands before the smoke arrived.....
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Here is another milky way composition from the Badlands of South Dakota. We went to specifically photograph the milky way in a more horizontal position and over some new areas during May. Unfortunately, the milky way galaxy core does not appear above the horizon until around 2:00am.....making for a very long night.
However, during that time it was great to listen to the packs of coyotes, near and far howling as they were hunting. I even heard a western meadowlark singing at 2:00 in the dark morning. I found that to be really interesting. It was also nice to have some clear night skies before the wildfire smoke came down from Canada and created an impossible haze.
Since the area is too vast to light up with artificial lights, I had to capture the foreground just after sundown. Then, it was a 6 hour wait for the milky way to rise into the position I wanted. This is a time blend and focal blend of 2 images. Nikon Z9 with Nikkor 24-70 F2.8 S lens for the foreground, and Nikkor 14-24F2.8 for the sky. Nothing is moved in between shots except for the lens being changed.
Foreground: F11, 1/30sec, ISO 64, 55mm
Sky: F2.8, 10 sec, ISO 10,000, 20mm, 15 images stacked for noise reduction.
Hand blended and edited in Lightroom and Photoshop. May 2023
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Taken on: May 18, 2023
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Camera: Nikon Z 9, f/11.0, 1/60 sec, 55mm, ISO 64 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Nikon Z 9
Lens: NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S
Aperture: f/11.0
Exposure Time: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Focal Length: 55mm
ISO: 64
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash
Exposure Program: Manual
Exposure Mode: Manual
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
White Balance: Auto
Color Space: Uncalibrated
Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 12.3 (Windows)
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