ChrisVanLoan
FollowShot in Baja california on a SCUBA expedition to document gas samples on a little explored volcanic island in the Sea of Cortez. All of my underwater photos on ...
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Shot in Baja california on a SCUBA expedition to document gas samples on a little explored volcanic island in the Sea of Cortez. All of my underwater photos on Viewbug are from that expedition.
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I shot this in Baja on the Gulf of California during a remote scuba research expedition that I was photographing.Time
This was shot around 11PMLighting
This shot was difficult to get the results I wanted due to the total lack of light and using a 30 second exposure to it's limits. I didn't have an external timer on this trip, and wanted to limit the star movement anyway, so ISO was maxed around 8000 on a 5DMKIII, so it required a lot of attention in post for noise reduction.Equipment
5DmkIII with a 16-35mm 2.8L (which I had rented to use in the dive housing), Bogen Manfroto carbon fiber tripod.Inspiration
When I saw the whale skeleton off of the shore of the remote beach I immediately knew if I could capture the milky way or at least a star scape would make an excellent nightscape photo invoking feelings of the wonders of the universe, space, time, and existence.Editing
Post processing was difficult due to hight ISO. The foreground was burned in to hide mediocre ground detail and bad noise, and the sky has several rounds of ISO reduction.In my camera bag
5DmkIII, 14-24 Nikon with adapter, and cannon primes: 24m 1.4, 35mm 1.4, 50mm 1.2, 85mm 1.2, 200mm 2.0Feedback
Nightscape photography is more than putting your camera on a tripod, struggling to focus, then making a long exposure. Understanding of the basics will help you get what you want out of the image while stretching your cameras limits.