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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Dave Pluimer on May 27, 2014, 09:52:22 pm

Title: Branches
Post by: Dave Pluimer on May 27, 2014, 09:52:22 pm
(http://www.davepluimer.com/Land-Sky/i-Qjjvd8N/0/X2/MilkyWay_20140523_15814-Edit-X2.jpg)

I'm amazed that we can take this in with all of the light pollution that we have. But, we still have a few places in the state (Indiana) where when the conditions are right it makes for quite a show.

Canon 6D, Canon 24-70 f/2.8L - 24mm, ISO 4000, f/2.8, 20s
Title: Re: Branches
Post by: KMRennie on May 28, 2014, 08:52:41 am
Excellent makes my own first attempts look terrible and I live in dark sky area. Thank you for encouraging me to get out and do better.
Ken
Title: Re: Branches
Post by: Bob_B on May 28, 2014, 09:38:23 am
+1. Beautiful image and fantastic sky, but it makes me so jealous, as living in Baltimore-Washington (DC) area the chances of ever capturing such a dark sky are about nil.

Bob
Title: Re: Branches
Post by: NancyP on May 28, 2014, 07:39:00 pm
Nice! Southern Indiana? There's lovely hilly country near the Ohio River. (Cincinnati OH native, now live in St. Louis MO, drive through IN on a regular basis).
Title: Re: Branches
Post by: Dave Pluimer on May 28, 2014, 07:49:40 pm
Nice! Southern Indiana? There's lovely hilly country near the Ohio River. (Cincinnati OH native, now live in St. Louis MO, drive through IN on a regular basis).

Montgomery county just outside of Shades State Park. About an hour or so east of Indianapolis.
Title: Re: Branches
Post by: luxborealis on May 28, 2014, 08:59:03 pm
Wonderful image, but I can' the lip thinking the title does not do it justice. The sky is the image, not the branches, or am I missing something?
Title: Re: Branches
Post by: Dave Pluimer on May 28, 2014, 09:46:24 pm
Wonderful image, but I can' the lip thinking the title does not do it justice. The sky is the image, not the branches, or am I missing something?

Fair question. When I decided to make the tree a framing/foreground element, what I saw was the similarity between the the dark dust lanes of the center of our galaxy and the tree branches against the sky. Both like arms -branches- reaching out from the core.

That's what I see.
Title: Re: Branches
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on May 29, 2014, 04:10:16 am
Nice work.