Alpine light painting Up at the top of Sefton Biv I met an awesome man who has climbed to the top of pretty much every mountain in the Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park (inc. Mt Cook), as well as being a passionate photographer. So after we shot the sunset I asked if he was going to stay up and shoot the milky way but he told me he hadnt done any night photography before and had no clue how to do it. So after the astronomical sunset (10:30pm), we set up our tripods around the hut and I gave him a night photography 101 workshop haha. It was awesome seeing his joy after he captured an image. Especially when we started to do some ghetto light painting with candles from the hut haha. As I dont like using LED torches due to the blue cast, so we set up a small candle inside the hut and varied the distance from the window for the ideal exposure. Then we had a candle to expose the outside of the hut. Once we found the ideal angle, distance and height, we exposed the hut for 10 seconds and then extinguished the candle and continued exposing for another 20 seconds (on the camera) for the stars. It was a pretty fun process and good to get it right in camera without need to do any burning/dodging or major WB correction in photoshop. I took two images and stitched them to get a vertical panorama. This was done by shifting 12mm downward and 12mm upward. Cheers Crispy
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:48:23 +0000
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