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[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

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.



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

Cheers

Greg

[matt34 (Matt)]

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]

Originally Posted by matt34

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

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

[RickS (Rick)]

Wow! That's lovely.

[astronobob (Bob)]

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

[Larryp (Laurie)]

That's beautiful, Greg!

[Rod771 (Rod)]

That's just awesome

Very nice Greg.

[Craige]

Greg that is top notch. Love it!

Craige

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

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

Mike

[iceman (Mike)]

Yeh that's raised the bar yet again!

[rogerg (Roger)]

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 (Greg)]

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

Originally Posted by matt34

I've looking for a location where my 2 favourite types of photography could mix, waterfalls & nightscapes.

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.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

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

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.

Originally Posted by rogerg

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 ?

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.