Sunday, December 25, 2011

Peterson Ridge Star Trails


Sometimes you just have to make an educated guess on camera settings and see what happens. When your setting a camera up for a 40 minute exposure the challenge is guessing how much light will come through the lens over that time span, and if you get it wrong then you waisted 40 minutes. Tonight I guessed on some settings based on the little prior knowledge I had and this was the image produced. I'm pretty happy with the result.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

A Sunrise In Sisters

A little cloud cover, and a couple snow covered mountains at sunrise is apparently the perfect recipe for a pretty cool photo.  

Monday, December 12, 2011

Lunar Eclipse 2011

Sometime last week I heard there would be a lunar eclipse and that it would happen just before the moon would disappear over the horizon. I immediately thought that a nice landscape with the eclipse would be really cool. Long story shot that is not what happened. After staying up all night to see the eclipse these composite photo above is all I came away with but I underestimated how cool the eclipse would be and I am looking forward to the next one. I think I could really improve on this now that I have shot it once.