A small group of volunteers had a first time opportunity this past week to shoot the night skies over the Fountain Valley formation @ Roxborough State Park. Here are the processed images from the nights event.
All images were shot with a SonyA7M2 and a Sigma 20mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens.
Located near the town of Calhan, Co, St Mary’s Church and Cemetery provide a great foreground for the night skies.
See the latest additions to the Milky Way Gallery in the Night Images Album. I have been experimenting with stacked panoramas for noise reduction and clearer, sharper images.
The technique requires a “stack” of images – 9, 16, 25 – with the same settings right after one another. These are then software processed to align and eliminate random hot pixels and noise.
Multiple stacks are then done for each panel of the image. The resultant images from the stacks are then stitched for the panorama. Normal processing in LR or PS then follows.
Check them out. As always, prints of images are available for purchase. If you don’t see the one you want in my Etsy Store, contact me for details.
A number of folks have expressed interest in shooting Zapata with lights! MLK Day is the best for several. I am flexible. The eclipse blood moon is Sunday night/Monday morning so…
Here’s what I am looking at for Zapata Falls and the Super Blood Moon Eclipse.:
ZAPATA FALLS Trip Advisor Webpage
GREAT SAND DUNES GSA Webpage
Alamosa Hotels Closest to Zapata
Eclipse Map and Times for 1/20-21/19 from Mosca, Colorado
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2019-january-21
If you are interested in joining us for some or all of this time, drop me a note below and I will make sure to keep you all posted. Please include your cell #. I will not be adding you to any mailing list.
A small collection of night images from various escapades in and around the Front Range of Colorado.
As always, click thru on any image for a larger view and EXIF data for the shot. These images are optimized for web viewing and are not suitable for printing or enlargement. If you have a desire to do that, please contact me.
Another fun night with the Denver Night Photo Walk Community, aka the Denver Nightcrawlers. We started out at Sloan’s Lake Park hoping for a nice sunset with the skyline in the distance and maybe a reflection or two. Then a little playing with glow-sticks and steel wool for interesting light effects. While the majority headed off to photograph the nearby neighborhood and a few libations, a couple of us headed north to try for some light trails into Denver. Oh, and throw in one from a rain out at Coors Field, Cubs in town!
As always, click thru on any image for a larger view and EXIF data for the shot. These images are optimized for web viewing and are not suitable for printing or enlargement. If you have a desire to do that, please contact me via the form below.
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It was a cold February night/morning for our trek down to Eleven Mile Canyon State Park and Reservoir, but the location was ideal to capture the first Milky Way images of the season with a new moon night. We had enough time to capture images from both sides of the lake despite the galaxy not rising until 3:30 am.
As always, click thru on any image for a larger view and EXIF data for the shot. These images are optimized for web viewing and are not suitable for printing or enlargement. If you have a desire to do that, please contact me.
