Raining Fire - I had an incredible two evenings to shoot the Perseids meteor shower in Badlands NP this past August. Must have seen a hundred or so meteors. Of course, many of those outside the direction I had my camera pointed. Regardless, it was a warm and clear night/morning to enjoy the night sky.
Pertinent technical details or techniques to help others learn:
Used a star tracker for base Milky Way image. Meteors were captured with Rokinon 14mm lens, ISO 5000, f2.4, 25 seconds.
If this is a composite please be honest with your techniques and share some details so others can learn:
FYI…for those wondering, yes, this is a composite image. However, the long meteor transecting through the Milky Way was in an original capture. Because I use a star tracker which creates blurred foreground, I take a separate foreground image taken after sunset.
Great capture of the sky. The meteors make it a special image, I wonder whether it needs the foreground. Maybe the fg could be a bit darker? Anyway, I like it.
Ken the sky here looks awesome, the tracker did a great job for you. The detail you got in the stars is outstanding. I also like your color balance in the sky, I prefer cooler MW shots. And you couldn’t have asked for the meteors to line up any better.
Ken, pretty much agree with Paul’s comments. Outstanding night-sky image and having the Badlands as the earth’s anchor - hard to go wrong there! Great job.
Thanks for all the comments! I realize not all folks appreciate composites, but digital creativity can take on many forms. I like creating these night sky images since many folks never have had an opportunity to see what a timed exposure of the night sky can look like.
Cheers
No I think it needs the foreground. It anchors the whole image. What sky tracker were you using if I might ask? Was the MW also photographed at those same camera settings? So you only tracked for 25 seconds?
Youssef, I used the iOptron skytracker. However, as it turned out my base settings were quite adequate for capturing sharp stars. I decided to use the base settings even though it was shot at ISO 5000 since I captured the meteor streaking through the Milky Way. I certainly didn’t anticipate that! That said, I did take a few other Milky Way base shots just in case. I normally shoot at ISO 800 , f2.4 @ 2 minutes with the skytracker.
Cheers
