As I mentioned in another thread, I went to Bordertown in the SA country last weekend for Mothers Day and got to try out my new Nikon D800E. It's amazing. Image quality is excellent at high ISO and with my new faster lenses that I bought too I got some great shots with good quality. Finally this is the camera I've been looking for to be able to a lot of things that I either couldn't previously or just a vast improvement on quality.
The images below were taken at my usual 'secret' dark spot at Poocher Swamp near Bordertown. The last few times I've imaged there it's had plenty of water so I got some good reflections but this time it's virtually all dried up except for a puddle in the middle! I was able to get close to some of the dead trees though that I normally can't get to.
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All taken with a Nikon 14-24 at 14mm, f2.8, ISO 6400 and 20sec exposure except for the last two which were 10sec. The glow on the horizon under the Milky Way centre in Scorpio/Sag was from the town lights. There was a lot or airglow that night too which produced the reddish-brown colour around the southern horizon.
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