The MilkyBristle ConeWay

kdog · May 23, 2015

I shot this last year, but never really noticed it until accidentally stumbling across it yesterday.

rhituraj · May 23, 2015

How can you miss such a shot for a year? Superb [emoji106]

kdog · May 23, 2015

rhituraj wrote: »

How can you miss such a shot for a year? Superb [emoji106]

Thank you! It's a good question. I have this bad habit of just picking out a few good shots from a day of shooting on my trips. I then spend all my time on those, glossing over the rest and move onto the next day. I can't even imagine how many decent photos I may have squirreled away. Maybe when I'm too old to shoot any more, I'll go back and find them. :rutt

Juano · May 23, 2015

kdog wrote: »

Thank you! It's a good question. I have this bad habit of just picking out a few good shots from a day of shooting on my trips. I then spend all my time on those, glossing over the rest and move onto the next day. I can't even imagine how many decent photos I may have squirreled away. Maybe when I'm too old to shoot any more, I'll go back and find them. :rutt

Please, do go back and check your files once in while...!

CCoop · May 23, 2015

Beautiful shot!! Wow!! Can you say a little about the "milky bristle cone way?" I'm not familiar with this term ... --Carter

Stumblebum · May 24, 2015

Nice bro! I do wish though that highlights were bit tame.....it is too piercing.....but it could be monitor difference. Cheers!

Thelensspot · May 24, 2015

Great effect with foreground tree "reaching for the stars"!

kdog · May 24, 2015

Juano wrote: »

Please, do go back and check your files once in while...!

Thanks, Cristobal. I'll do that.

CCoop wrote: »

Beautiful shot!! Wow!! Can you say a little about the "milky bristle cone way?" I'm not familiar with this term ... --Carter

Thanks, Carter. The title was a possibly poor choice of word play on on the actual title which would probably have read: "Bristlecone Milky Way". This was shot in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in the eastern Sierras. If you're not familiar with it, the pine trees there are amazing and thousands of years old.

Stumblebum wrote: »

Nice bro! I do wish though that highlights were bit tame.....it is too piercing.....but it could be monitor difference. Cheers!

Thanks, Taz. Probably a combination of your monitor and a my heavy hand on the contrast slider. Probably a bit over done.

Thelensspot wrote: »

Great effect with foreground tree "reaching for the stars"!

Thanks, man. The bristlecone pines just beg for compositions like this.

I've posted this one before, but here it is again since we're talking about it. This is the light from the moonrise which happened shortly after the above shot.

I believe that red glow on that one tree is from the red LED on a second camera doing timelapses nearby.

And a plain old daytime shot so folks can get a better sense of the area.

Cornflake · May 26, 2015

Beautiful! I don't find it piercing... just fine.

kdog · May 26, 2015

Cornflake wrote: »

Beautiful! I don't find it piercing... just fine.

Thanks, Don! That's good to know.

Cornflake · May 29, 2015

As an aside, I have the same tendency to quickly identify the best shots from an outing and ignore the rest. Several times I've found that I missed a gem. Also, as my processing improves, I sometimes find good images that I just didn't know how to work up well at the time. It does pay to mine the old files occasionally, as you've proved.

roaddog52 · May 30, 2015

Good stuff, inspiring. I keep wanting to shoot some night stuff, and have a couple of ideas, now I just need to make the time, learn some technique and get with it.

Thanks for sharing.

Phil

kdog · May 30, 2015

Cornflake wrote: »

As an aside, I have the same tendency to quickly identify the best shots from an outing and ignore the rest. Several times I've found that I missed a gem. Also, as my processing improves, I sometimes find good images that I just didn't know how to work up well at the time. It does pay to mine the old files occasionally, as you've proved.

Exactly!!

kdog · May 30, 2015

roaddog52 wrote: »

Good stuff, inspiring. I keep wanting to shoot some night stuff, and have a couple of ideas, now I just need to make the time, learn some technique and get with it.

Thanks, Phil. Nothing to it, as far as technique goes. f/2.8ish, 20-30s, ISO 3200-6400
You need a nice clear sky, but that's nothing new for you. Pretty straightforward!

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