Wise River MT-Camping-01
Three days camping out at wise river in Montana. One of the night shots that I took. My step son toted a small 2 person tent and has been pitching it to sleep ...
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Three days camping out at wise river in Montana. One of the night shots that I took. My step son toted a small 2 person tent and has been pitching it to sleep out under the stars, so I figured I'd take advantage of it and get a neat shot or two. Campfire lit the tent and the front facing trees really nicely for this long shutter exposure. Post processing was tricky and there's several renditions of this photo that came out very nicely, however, this is my favorite rendition of it.
Long exposure approximately an hour with the shutter open allowed the campfire to light the tent and front facing trees along with the star drift in the background made for one fantastic shot and view. Visually this is my favorite shot of our entire trip.
Every two years we make a trip to Montana. This was our third visit up that way in the past 8 years. Next summer in 2024 we're going to be heading East to Florida to visit a long time friend of mine in the Orlando area. We have plans to stop in Mississippi, Oklahoma and New Mexico to see friends and family along the way there and back again.
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Long exposure approximately an hour with the shutter open allowed the campfire to light the tent and front facing trees along with the star drift in the background made for one fantastic shot and view. Visually this is my favorite shot of our entire trip.
Every two years we make a trip to Montana. This was our third visit up that way in the past 8 years. Next summer in 2024 we're going to be heading East to Florida to visit a long time friend of mine in the Orlando area. We have plans to stop in Mississippi, Oklahoma and New Mexico to see friends and family along the way there and back again.
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ryanenyaw
September 08, 2023
Yeah, to see the original photograph you would never think it could become this frame after lightroom. It actually was really surprising. Is my prized shot from this years vacation. When I saw the rendering the first time my mouth sort of dropped open. I never expected it to turn out this beautiful. But, it did. The wonders of lightroom.... :D
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CanadianGardenJoy
December 26, 2023
What the camera sees verses what we are able to see can the stunning ... this was one of those !
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ryanenyaw
Jan 16
Well the finished picture after lightroom is definitely very different than what I began with. The magic of lightroom amazes...
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This photograph was taken in Wise River Montana. We go out there to go camping when we are up and visiting in the area. This is the third such trip I've been on in the past 8 years. My girlfriend is a Montana (Butte) native, born and raised, so this is our getaway from daily life. From this years three and a half weeks vacation it has to be, without a doubt my favorite frame that I was able to capture. Set up this photo looking south with the campfire behind the camera to cast light on the tent and facing trees. We typically go up to Montana every two years so the next one, unless we get brave and I decide it's now a time to get some winter shots with snow on the ground shots, to go up while I'm off for winter break, we'll end up back in Montana in Summer 2025. Next years big vacation is set to be California to Orlando, Florida area to go hang out with my Army Battle Buddy Ben.Time
I started several long exposures after 9pm when the sun went completely down and all the stars came out. Up in Montana, and tucked away between a whole bunch of mountains that block out nearby Butte, Montana's light pollution it makes for a very vivid scene. I was attempting to get some of the perseid meteor shower in with it, however, none of the exposures captured any shooting stars. This coming Spring I'll be doing some more night sky open shutters up in the Red Mountain California area to catch galactic center on the Milky Way. Yes, one whole weekend camping trip just to collect a handful of night shots for galactic center.Lighting
Campfire right behind where the camera on the tripod was set up to illuminate the treeline facing the camera as well as my step-sons tent. With the campire being low and not raging it made for one spectacular capture. Up in Montana the sun does not go down in the summertime until around 9pm, which means you have to wait almost what seems like an eternity once it finally is down for stars to start popping out. I was done with several open shutters by midnight when perseid's was supposed to have already started and I'd noticed several shooting stars in the vicinity of my photo being taken, however, nothing popped up in any of the shots. This photo was the longest open shutter of the night which was &bt;60 mins to achieve a grand amount of star drift.Equipment
Canon EOS 5DS MK 50MP camera body, Zenitar fish eye lens set at F22 to catch good and equal sharpness throughout the photo, Tripod, Manual shutter release, ISO set to 100 and approximately 60-75 minutes with the shutter in the open position. Have plans to add into my arsenal of camera equipment an Astro-conversion Canon 5D MK IV, an IR-conversion 5D MK IV, a splash drone with 4K camera and x2 Soloshot video cameras. Quite expensive, but still going to be far worth their weight in gold. Just takes $$ to do them. A boy can dream can't I? Would also love to add a Canon 600 mm zoom lens.Inspiration
Perseid meteor shower was supposed to start up at midnight. I figured since I was going to try and capture some of the meteors, I might as well take advantage of the scene I was looking at sitting around our campfire. The tent was lowly illuminated by the campfire and I knew with my wide angle zenitar it might make for a nice photo with a long exposure and open shutter. As Wise River in Montana is a pretty desolate place as far as anything technological in nature, there is no wifi, there is no internet, no cell phone bars at all. Once you are off the 15 freeway on the Wise River exit by about 200 yards, you have absolutely no cell coverage at all. I wasn't really sure which direction the perseid's was supposed to be coming from so I took a chance on this framed up photo and crossed my fingers one would cross the path. Although there were several to the south, my camera was up on it's side with the wide angle zenitar and it just so happened that none of the 4-5 shooting stars that were in the south got captured.Editing
Yes, Lightroom. This photo originally started out very dark and lowly lit. Upping the exposure, contrast, whites and playing with all the coloration brought this snapshot to life in the way that it currently displays. I try and not rely on Lightroom for a ton of post-processing, however, with this picture, as with any night-sky pictures taken as open shutters it definitely takes a whole lot more to bring out stars and balance foreground and background lighting beings both are very opposite of one another. A mild linear gradient had to be used to balance the two out and make background/foreground fairly much equal.In my camera bag
Well, I usually carry multiple cameras, my Canon 60D (18MP) and now my 5DS (50MP), 50mm, 70-300mm, zenitar fisheye 14mm, my big canon 300mm, 500mm mirrored manual and a few other in-betweens. Having a variety of lenses means you can adapt the same view into different perspectives. I highly recommend any avid photographer to invest in your glass so that the "eyes" are different when you change out from one to the next lens. It tends to make the same view look a whole lot different and give it a new perspective. I tend to keep my lightning trigger, my manual shutter release, extra batteries and a myriad of other camera equipment such as cleaning rags, glass wipes, extra lens caps, etc.Feedback
Check your settings, realize your ISO is how long it takes to burn that image in. With open shutters, you need a very small ISO so it takes longer to imprint on the "film", along with the long open shutter. Invest in a decent tripod that is sturdy and will not move in mildly windy conditions and of course a manual shutter release is mandatory. Then open it up and let it be for an hour. This is how you achieve star drift and capture that movement in the sky while non-moving objects in the foreground stay still.
