Heavenly Horses - a photo on Flickriver

Heavenly Horses

The mythical winged horse meets the dark horse.

This is a variation of my Achiyalabopa image flic.kr/p/Y2ZNMA. Actually, it is how I planned and initially executed it.

I discovered this stunning structure, while scouting the place in the afternoon, set a marker on my GPS and named it Pegasus. It was immediately clear to me that I had to capture it with the dark horse of the Milky Way right on its shoulder.

It was my 6th night in a row doing nightscapes and I was very tired. I therefore only noticed while shooting at the next spot, that I had taken the whole sequence at f/2.8 instead of f/1.4. I immediately went back and captured the scene again, resulting in the Achiyalabopa image.

Because I still thought that the original composition was better, I checked what I could recover from the 2-stops underexposed RAWs. The advantage of the stopped down lens is that the stars are free of coma. What do you think of the result?

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EXIF
Canon EOS 6D, astro modified
Sigma 35mm f/1.4 ART @ f/2.8
Low Level Lighting

SKY:
5 x 12s @ ISO 6400, untracked, stacked with fitswork

Foreground:
3 x 50s @ ISO 1600, stacked

Taken on: May 27, 2017

Tags:

Astronomy

Astrophotography

Milky Way

Milchstrasse

Nightscape

Starscape

Long Exposure

Night

Landscape

Desert

Red Rock

Nevada

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Low Level Lighting

Canon EOS 6D

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Sigma

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