August 27, 2012
Night Sky over White Mountains
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I really love astral photography, but living so close to the city I rarely get the chance to try my hand at it. In fact, I am kicking myself that i didn’t do more of it while I was in Nevada this past spring.
So when I found myself in New Hampshire’s White Mountains a couple of weeks ago, I made a point to take a late night drive over the Kancamangus Highway, a 32 mile stretch through National Forest. No towns, just mountains and road.
I grabbed this shot at a scenic overlook about halfway over the highway. The distant lights were barely visible it the naked eye, but jumped off of the LCD.
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Absolutely beautiful photo! Looks like you could get lost in the stars..
I just love this one, Bob, what a great photo! Those lights in the far distance there are absolutely mesmerizing, as are the stars in the sky!
OMG this is just brilliant Bob. I love it. How long of an exposure did you use?
Thanks guys … Edith, the exposure was 45 seconds, f/4 at 1600 ISO. The lens was the Nikon 16-35. Its a little slow.
I think45 seconds was JUST a bit too long. You can see the stars starting to take on an egg shape, but I’m happy with it overall.
This is beautiful Bob! The high ISO is perfect – with astral photography you really have to experiment until you get in the ballpark 🙂
It’s amazing how many more stars appear in the image that you don’t see with your naked eye. Really nice, thanks for sharing.
Love this photo.