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| August 2020, Runner-up: Raining Starlight Contest Number: 168 Contest Theme: Night Sky Lens: Samyang 20mm f1.8 Camera: Pentax K-1 Shutter Speed: Above 6s Aperture: F4
Dumbleyung Lake has its claim to fame as being the place where Donald Campbell broke the water speed record on the last day of 1964, becoming the first ( and only ) person to break both the land and water speed records in one year. Aside from this superb distinction, it's also a favourite place of mine to shoot!  This is a very recent photo, at the tail end of a night's shooting. I had an idea/concept that I wanted to try, and so I gave it a go to see if it would work. The weather was fairly calm, although a light breeze picked up occasionally. The quarter moon had set earlier in the night, and so I set up my camera facing west and took nearly 90 minute's worth of 2-minute exposures on Bulb mode. These I stacked in post to gain the star trails. The stars had a little bit of a zipper pattern - especially in the reflection in the water when there had been a breeze - so I applied a radial blur in post to smooth them out. I had light-painted the trees at the end of the shoot to bring out some detail, and I merged them over the top to bring out some detail rather than just having them as dark silhouettes. The photo of myself with the umbrella was taken much earlier in the evening at another spot near the shore of the lake, probably just after Blue Hour had finished. The moon was behind me, and illuminated my back a bit. That photo was taken with the Sigma Art 35mm f1.4, and was a 15 second exposure @ f2.2, ISO 6400. I cut and pasted it into the photo where I had envisaged, and scaled it against the tree. The photo is a composite!! ( necessary yet somewhat superfluous disclaimer  )The glow on the horizon is probably the street lights of the town of Wagin, around 35 km's away reflecting off the clouds. All-in-all, I was pretty happy with how it turned out  | |
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