Milky Way over a light painted Fairyland Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah. This image is from page 80 in my new “Milky Way NightScapes” ebook. You can preview it here. The two previous images in my profile (pages 78 and 79) are examples from my ebook, showing how this image was lit. The orange glow in the clouds is reflected light from the little town of Tropic, Utah, 4 miles behind me; the glow on the horizon is light pollution from St. George, 90 miles away. ONE EXPOSURE: This image was lit using the stationary “light painting” set up shown in my new ebook (and in the next two images). The purpose of the stationary light painting is to give recognizable detail to the landscape foreground —enough that you only have to make one exposure. This makes post processing considerably easier, as you do not have to combine separate exposures for the sky and foreground.
My new ebook goes on to give extensive details on lighting tricks and procedures, i.e. filtration, light modifiers, and calculating exposures. Three other chapters cover planning, scouting, shooting and post processing.
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