The Milky Way at the North Rim of the Black Canyon. It's walls are not quite as picturesque as the South Rim, but they are still quite interesting, and most importantly the Milky Way lines up really well when you are on the North Rim compared to the South Rim. And then of course there is the longer several hour drive to get there compared to the South Rim, but for the sake of the Milky Way, I think it's totally worth it. Oh, and did I mention that it probably only gets 2% of the amount of visitors that the South Rim gets? So it's much more peaceful also.
This image is a blend of 2 images, one taken from a timelapse that ran all night, and then 2nd, the ground layer was taken early in the morning after I was done shooting my timelapse, and I could aim the camera down into the canyon. The depth of the canyon along with the height of the Milky Way makes this an impossible 1 image Horizontal capture. Now if I went Vertical I could have captured it all at once, but verticals just don't work well for timelapses and playing on a TV.
The timelapse will not be able to show the depth of the canyon, though it will show some of the walls. But since this is a still image I decided a blend was in order to share the experience of the canyon with the Milky Way better. The word Composite could be used I guess, though I tend to think of composites as the merging of 2 completely different or significantly different compositions, or having moved significantly between the images used in the final image. In this case, all I did was angle the camera down from the positioning for the Milky Way. The tripod never moved, it was just moving the aim of the camera down into the canyon so it could be seen in more detail. So I consider this a blend. You can consider it whatever you want, but hopefully in the end you will consider this a pleasing Milky Way image.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
This image is a blend of 2 images, one taken from a timelapse that ran all night, and then 2nd, the ground layer was taken early in the morning after I was done shooting my timelapse, and I could aim the camera down into the canyon. The depth of the canyon along with the height of the Milky Way makes this an impossible 1 image Horizontal capture. Now if I went Vertical I could have captured it all at once, but verticals just don't work well for timelapses and playing on a TV.
The timelapse will not be able to show the depth of the canyon, though it will show some of the walls. But since this is a still image I decided a blend was in order to share the experience of the canyon with the Milky Way better. The word Composite could be used I guess, though I tend to think of composites as the merging of 2 completely different or significantly different compositions, or having moved significantly between the images used in the final image. In this case, all I did was angle the camera down from the positioning for the Milky Way. The tripod never moved, it was just moving the aim of the camera down into the canyon so it could be seen in more detail. So I consider this a blend. You can consider it whatever you want, but hopefully in the end you will consider this a pleasing Milky Way image.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
