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adavis
31-08-2015, 03:56 PM
A few months ago, I managed to jag an invite to photograph a private garden in Oberon. I planned it out nearly 6 weeks in advance using Photopills, timed for the brightest Milky Way Galactic Core, then just crossed my fingers and legs that the weather was going to play ball.
I got there about 2pm in the arvo to drive around and work out shot locations, and it was a little overcast.
As I set up for my first shot, a sunset timelapse, the clouds rolled in, and I was feeling a little dejected that the weather was taking a turn for the worst.

I had 10 different locations planned around the garden to shoot from, and had mapped out my nights activities to the 30 minute blocks.
I was elated when I drove down to my first location at 7pm and the clouds just evaporated, leaving me with a spectacular crisp clear night.
Dew did get to be a bit of an issue after about 8:30pm, but nothing that a few strategically placed hand warmers and dew heater didnt fix.

All these shots were panos of one flavour or another, taken on my Canon 6D with Samyang 14mm, f2.8, ISO3200/6400

hickny
31-08-2015, 04:28 PM
You have to be happy with those! Well done.
What exposure times did you use?

adavis
31-08-2015, 04:34 PM
Thanks hickny, I am very happy with the results :-)

Yes, I forgot to list exposures, the start of the night I was doing 20 seconds at ISO3200, but moved on up to 30 seconds at ISO6400 by the end as I tried to pull more details out of the foregrounds.

omegacrux
31-08-2015, 04:42 PM
Great set of pictures

David

Derek Klepp
31-08-2015, 05:20 PM
Some nice shots there Andrew

matt34
07-09-2015, 12:10 PM
Great job on a couple of fronts, getting access to the place and having the weather gods on your side. The images have turned out great

adavis
07-09-2015, 12:29 PM
Thanks Matt, yes Im chuffed on all fronts.
The weather was so touch and go and in the 4 hours or so that I was waiting for it to get dark, I thought about pulling the pin a couple of times, but kept telling myself "you never know what is going to happen and you're here now"

:rofl:

PeterM
07-09-2015, 01:06 PM
These are stunning! Great work! Thank you.