Dark and beautiful - a photo on Flickriver

Dark and beautiful

            Although I lit up these trees for the sake of the photo, and there is a hint of green glow in the mist on the water over on the left of the shot, it was very, very dark, here on the boat ramp on the Tuross River near Bodalla, Australia, when I captured this scene at the beginning of June. The green glow in the mist is from a navigation warning light on the nearby Princes Highway bridge. The structure echoes and vibrates when any vehicles pass over, but there were only a couple of cars using the road during my photo session so, for the most part, the quiet was as intense as the darkness.

Such dark conditions gave the planet Jupiter (the white starlike point near the trees) and the stars of the Milky Way extra opportunity to make themselves seen in the sky during the early hours of this wintry morning. Although I’d woken at midnight to leave my warm bed & head out in the cold for this shoot, the beauty of the dark, still & quiet outdoors made that effort worth every shiver and yawn that my body could generate.

For this single-frame photo, I used my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Samyang 14mm f/2.4 lens @ f/3.2, shooting with an exposure time of 20 seconds @ ISO 6400.

Taken in: Australia / New South Wales / Bodalla (show map)

Taken on: June 11, 2019

Tags:

Bodalla

New South Wales

Airglow

Astronomy

Astrophotography

Bridge

Eurobodalla

Galactic Core

Milky Way

Night

Nightscapes

Orange Airglow

Sky

South Coast NSW

Stars

Tuross

Tuross Head

Tuross River « less

Sets appears in: • Explores • Nightscapes

Groups appears in: • Golden Landscape, Only The Best ! (Post 1, Comment 1) • BBC Sky at Night and Stargazing Live more » • in explore • Amateur Astro-Photography • Canon 6D + Samyang lenses • Yes you can see the Milky Way • Samyang & Rokinon Astrophotography « less

Camera: Canon EOS 6D Mark II, f/3.2, 20 sec, 14mm, ISO 6400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 6D Mark II
Lens:	14mm
Aperture:	f/3.2
Exposure Time:	20
Focal Length:	14mm
ISO:	6400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 8.3.1 (Macintosh)
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