eastern sierra Mt Whitney, Tent and Star Track, at Trail Camp

Comments are welcome, thanks

Excellent!

Beautiful capture. See the snow came early this year. Well done 6/7 anon

Magnificent!

Nicely done! A classic subject and very well executed. Congrats!

George

Impressive! Beautiful night scene shot! Best regards, Linh Dinh

Superb, amazing colours...congrats

Excellent in every aspect. Perfect anticipation of the light on the peaks. Film is not dead. I would be interested what aperture you used and whether you used push processing, the depth-of-field is very wide. I usually shoot star trails at f/4 with my 45 mm, but never have so sharp foreground although it is more distant.

An excellent image - beautiful atmosphere and lighting.

 

Paul R

Fantastic work. Perfectly executed.

Thanks for the Comments, guys.

 

To answer Peter's question:

 

The lens is 45/4, the aperture is set between F5.6 and F8 (that's F6.7 I think), the focus set base on Hyperfocal of F5.6 instead of F6.7( that's just my way to make sure infinity distance objects are in focus for sure), I made sure the the nearest object in frame is 3 meter away with a help of a headlamp. No filters, which wouldn't do any good on a long exposure.

 

I think the unique part of exposure of this photo is that it's not only a night exposure, but also the exposure stopped at half hour before sunrise. The mountains at west side of Eastern Sierra/Owen Valley are much higher than the mountains and desert at east, so they(westside mountains) usually get some before-sunrise (very weak) red light from reflection of eastern sky about 45 minuts before the sunrise time, the long exposure on film also enhanced that color on mountain.

 

Techniclly the film is far from dead and is still much better than digital in many prospects , the problem is in the market. I will be getting a semi-auto film process machine at home next year, and continue use my beloved P67II until there are not any films or film processer to be sold anywhere, plus I usually stock enough films for two years usuage:)..

 

 

Good stuff. I like it.

Wonderful capture!!

very nice well done