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Milky Way and Encroaching City Lights Over Lone Eagle Peak

Lincoln by Moonlight

Paint Mines during the Geminid Meteor Shower


Explored #95 Gemind Meteor Shower by Matt-Payne, on Flickr

mattpayne11 wrote:Paint Mines during the Geminid Meteor Shower

Matt, that is a fantastic shot! Could I talk you into sharing any of the exposure details?

Agreed! That is a spectacular shot (or shots). I'd love to hear how you did it. I tried but failed to do a shutter exposure over 50 seconds without having the stars turn into star trails. Amazing that you could catch a dozen meteors and still have the Milky Way remain tack-sharp.

upndown wrote:

mattpayne11 wrote:Paint Mines during the Geminid Meteor Shower

Matt, that is a fantastic shot! Could I talk you into sharing any of the exposure details?

Thanks guys.

So, this was shot using the Nikon 14-24 f/2.8 @ f/2.8... 30 second exposures at ISO 3200, I think 180+ exposures? Actually thought I'd get more than 12 meteors but I'm happy with the result.

Very cool. I'd love to learn more. How do you stack 180 photos? Is it easiest to think of this as two separate images -- one with the 180 photos of the sky / stars, and one with the rocks? How do you paste the sky photo onto the rock photo?

Sweet image!

I saw the other star-trails image you had on Flickr and it looks like that one had the entire sequence?

For the image in this thread, I assume you made it in one of two ways:
1) One shot had all of those meteorites! Wow, that would be incredible
2) You used one shot as a base image so you didn't have any star trails and then took each of the other images containing meteorites and overlaid the base layer. After that, I assume, you would have had to mask out (erase) the stars (but not the meteorites) on the additional layers. At least that's my guess.

Very cool result.

This I took back during the last week of Sept. while on a fall foliage trip in Colorado. I was not looking to make night shots and really tried to use the night for setting up camp and resting since I was there for only a week and wanted to do as many sunsets and sunrises as possible along with some daylight shots.

Maroon Bells, waiting for the sun to rise. Got there early to get a good spot for the sunrise. Wilson Peak

Another Maroon Bells.

BillMiddlebrook wrote:Sweet image!

I saw the other star-trails image you had on Flickr and it looks like that one had the entire sequence?

For the image in this thread, I assume you made it in one of two ways:
1) One shot had all of those meteorites! Wow, that would be incredible
2) You used one shot as a base image so you didn't have any star trails and then took each of the other images containing meteorites and overlaid the base layer. After that, I assume, you would have had to mask out (erase) the stars (but not the meteorites) on the additional layers. At least that's my guess.

Very cool result.

Yup Bill, #2 is right. Some other meteor shower photogs go an extra step and rotate the meteors so that they have a single point of origin.