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JimFox

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I captured this about 5 nights ago in Badlands National Park in South Dakota. I went there mainly to be able to do Deep Space Astro and set up my Astro gear for it. But since I was there and since it was night time, I also set up 2 cameras to capture the Milky Way. I had several parking lots to choose from as I wanted to set up my astro gear on a paved surface, and I had a few in mind where I could do my Deep Space, but also where I would have some nice rock structures where I could aim to the south to catch the Milky Way and also have an interesting ground layer. I think I succeeded. :)

All comments are welcome,

Jim

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Ben Egbert said:
Like a volcano this is great and I love the ground layer
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Thank you Ben!

For the ground, since I am doing timelapses when I pull out a single image to process, I am just grabbing one of the images from when I first set the camera to ISO 3200, 25 secs and f2.0. When doing timelapses since I am running in manual, the first 20 minutes or so the exposures are always overexposed for the sky, but perfectly exposed for the ground. Since I don't have to do any brightening or shadow recovery in processing, the ground has incredible detail. So I think that's just going to be the way I do my Milky Way images from now on. Well, at least on moonless nights like this was in the beginning.
 
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JimFox said:
Thank you Ben!

For the ground, since I am doing timelapses when I pull out a single image to process, I am just grabbing one of the images from when I first set the camera to ISO 3200, 25 secs and f2.0. When doing timelapses since I am running in manual, the first 20 minutes or so the exposures are always overexposed for the sky, but perfectly exposed for the ground. Since I don't have to do any brightening or shadow recovery in processing, the ground has incredible detail. So I think that's just going to be the way I do my Milky Way images from now on. Well, at least on moonless nights like this was in the beginning.
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This is a great idea Jim, I do like to use long exposure noise reduction, so there would be a 25 second delay between shots, no good for a real time lapse, but if I just wanted a good Milkey Way, this sounds like a good way to go about it.
 
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Ben Egbert said:
This is a great idea Jim, I do like to use long exposure noise reduction, so there would be a 25 second delay between shots, no good for a real time lapse, but if I just wanted a good Milkey Way, this sounds like a good way to go about it.
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Yep, that would be perfect. In fact with my single camera I was running around with so that I could compose individual images, I had the Long Exposure NR turned on, because as you say it doesn't matter if you aren't doing timelapses.
 
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rfkiii said:
Which parking lot was this? I'll be in Badlands in mid Sept. Nice pic.
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Thanks so much Rick!

The photo was taken in the Doors/Window View Area. It's on the Eastern side of the Badlands Scenic Loop Road. If you enter in at the town of Wall, it will be all the way to the East, the 2nd to the last view area. Or if you drive past Wall about 30 minutes or so and go in the Badlands from the Eastern Entrance, it's about 5 minutes after you enter the park, it's the 2nd view area.

What's awesome with the Badlands, is that these kind of rocks are all over. I was tied down a bit because my goal was to shoot Deep Space Astro with my Astro gear, so I wanted a paved parking lot for that. The Milky Way images were a secondary consideration on this occasion.
 
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JimFox said:
I captured this about 5 nights ago in Badlands National Park in South Dakota. I went there mainly to be able to do Deep Space Astro and set up my Astro gear for it. But since I was there and since it was night time, I also set up 2 cameras to capture the Milky Way. I had several parking lots to choose from as I wanted to set up my astro gear on a paved surface, and I had a few in mind where I could do my Deep Space, but also where I would have some nice rock structures where I could aim to the south to catch the Milky Way and also have an interesting ground layer. I think I succeeded. :)

All comments are welcome,

Jim

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Jim, this is a stunning show, I love your choice of foreground selection.

Oliver
 
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