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Alien world.....

            Milky Way over the salt flats Vertical 
This is another wake up at 12:30am and head to an earlier scouted composition in Death Valley National Park. This particular spot was a bit off the normal beaten path. Its always an adventure trying to find you exact composition in the dark even with headlamps and lights. However, it certainly can be done and it was. This image took 5 hours to complete. The milky way sky was captured at different points as the earth rotated around it. I began shooting at about 1:45am and stopped around 5:00am. I then waited, without moving anything, until a bit of light came up at blue hour and photographed the foreground.  There is a bit of light pollution behind the mountains from 2 distant cities, which is giving off a slight glow where the mountains meet the sky. The images were then hand blended in Lightroom and Photoshop to create this final result.  This is my vertical composition.

Nikon D850 with Tamron 15-30mm F2.8 lens at 15mm
Sky: 15 images stacked with Starry Landscape Stacker, ISO 10,000, F2.8 10 seconds.  
Foreground: ISO 64, 1/6 sec, F11
   

Taken on: April 10, 2021

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Camera: Nikon D850, f/2.8, 10 sec, 15mm, ISO 10000 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D850
Lens:	TAMRON SP 15-30mm F2.8 Di VC USD A012N
Aperture:	f/2.8
Exposure Time:	10
Focal Length:	15mm
ISO:	10000
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Gain Control:	High gain up
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 10.1 (Windows)
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