*Milky Gold Town* Did I get lucky or what! This past weekend I took Jeff Sullivans night workshop at Bodie Ghost Town, which allowed us to be in till 1am. Not only did we get the most insane sunset I have ever seen, but it cleared up for Milky way once it got dark. Perfect photographers weather if you ask me! This is a frame from my timelapse. Well the foreground shot which i lit with my flashlight I took after to get a better foreground shot. Star shot and timelapse specs: Canon 5D MK III Canon 17-40mm f/4 L ISO 6400 f/4 30 Seconds Foreground Shot: Canon 5D MK III Canon 17-40mm f/4 L ISO 3200 f/4 30 Seconds I masked the two shots together using photoshop and edited the shot with that and Lightroom 5. -Enjoy!
Bodie Traffic This ghost town is too much. I was so use to the tiny Ghost Towns back in Aspen I had no idea there were huge ghost towns like this. The place is incredible to say the very least. While my other cameras were busy I decided to use the glow sticks I brought, to light this car up. It took me a bit to get the light how I wanted it, moved the sticks around a few times to get it just right. Then lit the foreground with a headlamp. I could have asked for better clouds for this shot either. I got tons more from Bodie, hopefully I get to them all soon!
*Bonsai Trails* The past few days where pretty awesome. It started Saturday with a night workshop in Bodie Ghost Town with +Jeff Sullivan. Then I car camped just outside of Bodie to go back in morning when they opened. From there I decided to head to Lake Tahoe to go to Bonsai Rock, which has long been on my bucket list. I got there around 5:30 so I had plenty of time to kill. I still can't believe I carried my 4 bags, at once, down the steep hill to here! Was well worth it. So after kicking back and having a few beers I decided to set up. I shot sunset, which was decent and then waited for it to get a bit darker to start some more timelapses and do this star stack. *About This Shot* Canon 5D MK III Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 L II ISO 3200 f/2.8 25 Second Shots +Induro CT214 Tripod Getting a shot like this take lots of time and patience. In total it is 180 images stacked which mean it took around 126 minutes or 2 hours and 6 minutes. I then also took a 127 second shot to get a better foreground. Which still could be better in my opinion, next time! *Processing* I processed one of frames in Lightroom 5 and synced them all together. I then exported them as jpg's to a folder. I use a free program called StarStax (http://bit.ly/11f5YAT) I dragged the images to to program and clicked go. BUT WAIT, what about all those pesky plane trails! Alright this part sucked. I went into my folder of images and went through every single frame and highlighted it if I saw a plane trail, even meteors. Like this for example (http://cl.ly/image/3f0B1o1c2k28) This takes a bit of time but it was well worth it for the end result. After an hour of so of that nonsense, I re did the stack and was a lot happier. Now you probably have a shot with decent trails but a terrible foreground. I brought that 127 second shot I took, the new star trail shot and masked them together using photoshop. Then a few minor adjusted and it was time to post! #photography #googleplusphotos #plusphotoextract #starrynights #startrails #stars #laketahoe
