Cascade

[CapturingTheNight]

Hi all,

Woolshed Falls under the Milky Way. 7th of June 2013

I was driving back from another location last night when I saw the sign for these falls and even though I was already very tired I decided to check them out. I have been to these falls many times before but this was the first time I had been to them at night. I was pleasantly surprised to find the water level low enough to enable me to make my way into the middle of the falls to get a clear view of the Milky Way stretching overhead.

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9 image vertical panorma. Longer exposures were used for the three foreground images to bring up more detail in the falls.

Cheers

Greg

[matt34]

Great work Greg, the composition is gret and I like the detail and "pop" in the milky way

I've looking for a location where my 2 favourite types of photography could mix, waterfalls & nightscapes. Good job fighting the tired for the shot

[Astro_Bot]

Agreed - it is a good Milky Way shot on it's own, and the foreground sets it off very nicely.

[RickS]

Wow! That's lovely.

[astronobob]

Wow, that is really some sight, Magic stuff Greg, this is top class compo , i reackon :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Larryp]

That's beautiful, Greg!

[Rod771]

That's just awesome

Very nice Greg. :thumbsup:

[Craige]

Greg that is top notch. Love it!

Craige

[strongmanmike]

Far out Man!!! :eyepop: that's an unbelievably beautiful scene, heck, if you were in the room here I'd give you a big hug Greg :love:

Mike

[iceman]

Yeh that's raised the bar yet again!

[rogerg]

Very nice!

I'm surprised you needed 9 images in a panorama - I wonder what lens? I would have guessed 2-4 with a wide lens. Or is it a choice to get high MP ?

[CapturingTheNight]

Thank you very much for the great feedback everyone :D I really appreciate it.


Yeah I have been looking for a good location to do a water fall/Milky Way shot for a while too. Not easy at most waterfalls I have visited due to vegetation obscuring the sky.


:rofl: Aw shucks. Thanks Mike. Hmmmmm.....A big bear hug from Mike? Very tempted. I reckon I could be at your place in about 3 hrs.



It was just with my standard 14mm Roger. I could have easily covered the same scene with probably 3 images but it wouldn't have left much room for error. I always like to take a lot of images with my panoramas with plenty of overlap and extending out into areas I don't even plan to use. This enables me to have a lot more flexibility with the crop and composition of the final piece and eliminates a lot of the distortion errors caused by a wide angle lens panorama. It also mitigates the loss of any good or can eliminate bad things that may happen in an exposure. Like if I manage to get a nice meteor strike in one exposure but due to the warping of the panorama it may get lost at a seam. Or a plane might fly straight overhead. In both cases I would have a heap more data around those areas in other exposures to work with

[Ross G]

A beautiful photo Greg......original!


Ross.