I wonder what people will think of this one...
It's about 50% an astrophoto and 50% a light painting photo, again as per my Southern Cross & Pointers shot, attempting to end up with more an interesting piece of photography than a plain astrophoto. I think the story with it helps.
http://blog.astrophotography.com.au/...aphy-gold.html
Technically it's hard to say exactly what frames are in it because the light painting frames are blended individually to use the bits I wanted, and are all unique exposure lengths using cable release. The Orion/stars is 8 x 60sec (was limited by Orion setting). There were 15 frames of light painting.
... that doesn't sound like much but it took at least an hour to shoot, to get the right effect. I like to take time over such shots thinking about what the atmosphere is and what I want to re-create in the photo I'm trying to capture. There was a lot of walking around the vehicle looking at what I wanted to include and exclude, considering and testing different uses of light, etc.
I have to say, the truck felt larger than life when crouched half inside it illuminating the inside etc. Quote spooky
One of the quirky things about this kind of shot is that of course I was (and in some cases my wife was - good helper!) standing in the shot holding the lights, so I find it mildly entertaining that there's lots of photo's with one of us in it but you can never see any people
Drove 1800km in 4 days, camped at 2 places over 3 nights, had a great trip, a few more photo's to come
.. but not too many "production quality" astro pics, it was an reconnaissance trip.
The title of the photograph comes from the fact the photograph was taken in in the Goldfields region on an old pastoral and mining lease, and I was on a 4 day 1800km trip to find new astrophotography locations (you could say fossicking for photography locations!
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Roger.