Wally Pacholka, night skies photographer

I just wanted to share this link with you all photonetters, an interesting result, pushing hard the exposure

times to get an unveiled view to the eyes:

 

http://www.brightnightgallery.com/canfalkiv.html

 

Enjoy! :-)

They look great! I wonder how he does the astronomical time exposures without getting star trails- the foreground objects are not blurred, and at least one caption says that it's an "Unedited Photograph"?

 

However he does it, I'm impressed...

For such a long exposure, he needs a star tracking system. For the foreground he used a single flash trigger. There are more in the folder, but this one seems to be the most dramatic and complex.

Hm, I think the sky part and foreground path are composited together. The other possibility is, that the foreground was so dark, that the illumination of it was done with flash or other light source -- this would take short time and avoid the blurring.

Thanks Nestor. Very interesting photography. A little too many stars for my taste, but interesting ideas.

 

Can I tell you who my favorite night photographer is? Our very own Daniel "Mr. Kodachrome" Bayer. http://www.photo.net/photos/Kodachrome_Project. I hope he doesn't mind a hack like myself being a fan, but he does some extraordinary work.

Borek, he states that it is not a composite (see details on the bottom, it says "Media: Unedited Photograph" and also in this link: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080929.html), apparently it's only a single long exposure shot, then I have no reason to doubt -specially with my limite knowledge doing this kind of shots. I have to admit that they look like a composite, though.

 

Michael, I've been around in p.net since 2001, Bayer was one of my first fovourite and inspirational photographers here, and he still is. His work is quite original, and of the best quality too. We share the respect for his work.