Unintended Surprise

[Youssef_Ismail]

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Description

Two nights ago we had completely cloud free sky on the coast and I had been waiting for such a night to photograph the Milky way at Shark Fin Cove to get a partner photo for the Orion’s Tribe photo I made back in January. Something went wrong on the ball head sitting atop the star tracker and I noticed the whole camera slowly drooping. I stopped the exposure and re-oriented the camera and continued with the series of single photos that I had intended to stack later. To my surprise this was the photo that came out, not ICM but UICM (Unintended Intentional Camera Movement) or should it just be UCM?

I thought it was interesting how the stars and land streaked, but the Milky way nebula did not. I have no idea how that happened.

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Technical Details

Nikon D850, Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 at f2.8 and somewhere in a 30 second exposure. Processed in ACR and PS.

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[Dennis_Plank]

Not sure how it happened either, Youssef, but it sure came out with a really interesting result. Given the lack of anything much going on in the foreground I’d be tempted to crop about half of the land off.

[Diane_Miller]

Holy Cow!! Those night demons were at work again. I hear they are bad over on the dark coast.

A fascinating happening, however it happened! If there is overhead to play with tonalities, this could be some fun! The FG might be brought out even more and the sky subdued…??

[andres1 (Andres Bernardi)]

Sometimes unplanned images are the best. I agree the sky looks awesome, and I like the foreground too, but maybe with a little less of it, maybe a square crop.