[Ed Hurst]

Very nice! May I ask what the parameters were of this shot? I.e., shutter time, ISO, lens and aperture.

Thanks

Hello! Thanks for your kind feedback.

It's two shots combined (one for the sky and one for the foreground). The sky shot was ISO6400 f4.5 for 13 seconds. The foreground was ISO400 f6.3 for 20 minutes (plus a dark frame to clean that frame up). The two were fairly easily composited, though where the lamp posts intrude into the sky it took a little work and I didn't find it necessary to remove all trace of the high ISO file in those areas.

This is the better take.

Thanks for taking the time to look at them, mate. When comparing the star trail shot with this image, they are quite different. To me, they express quite different things. Overall, the surreal quality of the place feels better expressed to me by the trails, so I prefer that shot - but it's obviously a subjective thing rather than one being objectively better than the other.

[Bonner04]

Pentax 645N II, Pentax smc FA 645 75mm f/2.8, Kodak Ektar 100

[texandrews]

Pentax 645N II, Pentax smc FA 645 75mm f/2.8, Kodak Ektar 100

Boy howdy, thar's some DR....

[Camaro5]

So I was driving back from an evening shoot when I came over a ridge and saw this scene. The way the light & shadows played across the desert floor was enough to pull over and get a few shots. I would've like to have gotten out from the shadow in the foreground but there's rattlers and other creatures out there. Shot just west of Eldorado Canyon, Southern Nevada

Pentax 645z + HD28-45 @ 34mm single exposure

---

Last edited by Camaro5; 05-05-2020 at 09:53 AM.

[texandrews]

So I was driving back from an evening shoot when I came over a ridge and saw this scene. The way the light & shadows played across the desert floor was enough to pull over and get a few shots. I would've like to have gotten out from the shadow in the foreground but there's rattlers and other creatures out there. Shot just west of Eldorado Canyon, Southern Nevada

Pentax 645z + HD28-45 @ 34mm single exposure

Actually, I think the shadow helps make the shot. And, counter-intuitively for this lover of green forests and alpine areas, I LOVE Nevada. People who just see Vegas or Reno or one of the big interstates don't know just how spook-a-delic that state is. Just amazing, that basin and range country. Austere to be sure, but ethereally beautiful.

[rdenney]

You’re killing me. I just had to cancel my two-week back-country trip to Utah and the Arizona Strip.

Rick “too much risk of getting stranded” Denney

[RICHARD L.]

Same here : the Canada-US border is still sealed shut to tourists and it would be too dangerous to travel West by road this year, with all those people not taking care to stay away from corona contagion. Plus the National Parks (and their campgrounds) are all pretty much closed too. Sooo ... home, sweet home, this year.

[ivanvernon]

Tulips from our gardens. MFD on the 67-75mm f 2.8 is so short that the lens hood is almost touching the flower so that the lens serves almost as a macro in this kind of work.

KIT: Z with Pentax 67 75mm f 2.8.

[Timotis77]

Pentax 645z - 55mm f/2.8 - My daughter running around our building complex in Docklands Melbourne, In the early days of isolation due to Covid19 - These few mins outside that everyone needed and especially energy filled children...

[Jonathan Mac]

So I was driving back from an evening shoot when I came over a ridge and saw this scene. The way the light & shadows played across the desert floor was enough to pull over and get a few shots. I would've like to have gotten out from the shadow in the foreground but there's rattlers and other creatures out there. Shot just west of Eldorado Canyon, Southern Nevada

Pentax 645z + HD28-45 @ 34mm single exposure

That's a fantastic shot and I don't think the shadow detracts from it at all. If anything it makes it better.

[texandrews]

Same here : the Canada-US border is still sealed shut to tourists and it would be too dangerous to travel West by road this year, with all those people not taking care to stay away from corona contagion. Plus the National Parks (and their campgrounds) are all pretty much closed too. Sooo ... home, sweet home, this year.

Actually, I'm thinking the reverse. Spoke to my brother yesterday (Jackson Hole) and I'm thinking this summer could be the perfect one to go out west. All the Park Service lodges in the Jackson area will be closed this summer because the workers have to live in dorms, so, to spread them out they'd have to be put in the rooms, which would diminish the revenue so much it's not worth opening. The area will be relatively quiet when normally it's kind of a circus.

I wanted to go north past Parry Sound this summer, but that looks like a no-go....

[ivanvernon]

Trilliums from the hillside of our place.

KIT: Z with Pentax 67 75mm f 2.8.

[kaseki]

Trilliums from the hillside of our place.

KIT: Z with Pentax 67 75mm f 2.8.

Nice trillium shot.

[barondla]

You’re killing me. I just had to cancel my two-week back-country trip to Utah and the Arizona Strip.

Rick “too much risk of getting stranded” Denney

I could handle being stranded in the west, with camera gear. ☺

Sorry your trip had to be canceled.

Thanks,
barondla

[ivanvernon]

Nice trillium shot.

Thank you.