This is Centennial Concrete (on Centennial Street…Front St. turns into Centennial). This is an eight minute exposure…I wasn’t all that happy with it, but it was the second eight-minute exposure and my camera batter was about to die because of it. Anyway, you can see six stars from the big dipper in the photo. The …
This is the Anselmo Mine uptown. It is a twenty minute exposure, the longest exposure I’ve ever done. I came up with a new technique for shooting long exposures at night…I set the tripod up right outside the drivers-side window of my Bonneville, then use my remote to set off the exposure. So during the …
This photo is a ten-minute long exposure of the sky on Roosevelt Drive. I have a series of about four more photos before this one. I might try to combine all 5 photos to make the star trails longer.
This is the trestle on Roosevelt Drive, off the old road to Whitehall. It’s a three minute exposure, so you can see a small amount of a star trail on each star. The light on the road is from my car headlights. I turned them on for about 5 seconds, then turned them off for …
I have a portable power pack for my studio lights, and decided to finally test it out tonight. It lit up the machinery next to the Bell Diamond Mine all right, but not as much as I’d hoped. I set it off at full power four times during the 30-second exposure, and probably should have …
30 seconds vs. 3 minutes I’ve been wanting to try star trails for some time now. Here was a quick test, the only two shots I took. The first photo is a 30 second exposure, the second is three minutes…I didn’t have untime to pack yet, and didn’t have a chance to dig my camera …