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Location
Kaaterskill Falls is a incredible spot tucked away in the Catskills in upstate New York.Time
This shot is a composite with the foreground taken around sunset/blue hour and the sky obviously taken at night but from a different location.Lighting
The lighting of the foreground was all form natural sunlight around sunset. I corrected the white balance in post to get a cooler image to go with the night sky. I had waited around for a while but the stars were not lining up the way I thought that they would, so I chose to do a composite to get the night sky where I envisioned it.Equipment
The foreground was shot with a Sony a7rII and a Ronikon 14mm F2.8 lens. The stars were taken on a Sony a65 and a Samyang 16mm F2.0. Both shots were taken using a tripod with a 2 sec shutter delay.Inspiration
There are so many place to explore great waterfalls and hikes in upstate NY and I wanted to do this hike since the pictures I had seen online were amazing. I didn't want to just duplicate them however and I have a passion for astrophotography too so I wanted to see if I could combine them.Editing
Yes, this is not a single shot. The foreground is taken at Kaaterskill around sunset but when I returned to that spot much later in the night, the milkyway was more overhead and behind the rocks, so since I wasn't camping there I made the call to hike back down and use previous milkyway shots I had taken to get the image I had originally set out to capture. :I used masking to overlay the sky and adjusted the white balance of the foreground to match with the cooler temps in the sky.In my camera bag
I carry my main camera, which is now my sony a7rii and usually a backup camera(previously the a65 which has now been replaced with a rx100 IV), 2 or 3 lenses depending on what i'm setting out to shoot, flashlights, extra batteries, filters(ND and polarizers) and a tripod.Feedback
Research. I spend a lot of time scouting locations online and mapping the sun and stars to time it just right. Also try to share in the adventure. For this outing I asked 2 of my friends to accompany me since I knew id be in the middle of no where up on a dangerous hike in the middle of the night. Neither of them were photographers but they thought it would be fun to hike and sit and have some beers while I did my thing. Having the company kept me there much longer than I would have if I was on my own which provided me good opportunity to get some great shots.