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Stars over Polperro

Stars over Polperro

Polperro is a dreamy fishing village in south east Cornwall. I wanted to capture the town under a atmospheric starry sky. To achieve the perspective I wanted, I...
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Polperro is a dreamy fishing village in south east Cornwall. I wanted to capture the town under a atmospheric starry sky. To achieve the perspective I wanted, I used a panoramic tripod head to capture this panoramic made from around eight separate picture taken in portrait format. The difficulty I had with the capture was the contrast different between the town lights and the stars, so I bracketed the whole panoramic to help cater for this.
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Canon EOS 5D Mark III

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Aperture f/2.8 ISO 1600 Shutter 30/1 Focal Length 16/1

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Mar, 2015

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Fantastic!

beautiful work mate, contrasts nicely from the town to sky. love it :)

Thank you Mark!

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