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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Sta.sh
Been to that particular place at least 10 times during the last 26 years and I could probably go there another 20 times and still find reasons to go back yet another time.
The country, the landscape, wildlife... everything is so great up there!
(Or you have to do extra long exposures of >30 seconds, then a pixel turns into a thin line as the star moves across the sky)
A friend of mine who was travelling with me this year brought a HUGE professional Manfrotto tripod that could be extended to a height that you'd need a ladder to operate the camera. It was huge, bulky and incredibly heavy but I've never used a more rock-solid tripod before. You could get a series of super steady shots from virtually any surface in any terrain.
This picture was taken with a very very small tripod though. I placed the camera almost down onto the boat platform, that created the weird perspective. I had to choose a very narrow aperture to get both foreground and background sharp, that increased the exposure time even more. One shot was 1.5 seconds, the second one even a whole ten seconds.
The color of the picture wasn't changed in post-work but I deliberately picked a daytime white balance on the camera which made the picture even more deeply blue than the scene already was. Note that it was past 9pm when I took it and that was way up north where it already gets dark very early around this time of the year.