Monday, July 13, 2009

Starlight Sunflowers

Checking the weather report for a repeat of Saturday's sunset was a little depressing. Not a cloud in the sky for at least 10 days. Not sure if the sunflower fields on Road 102 were going to last that long I decided to head back out last night to try some starry skies behind the flowers. It's pretty hard to compose a shot in nearly complete darkness, especially when it's watering night and the field is surrounded by a soggy moat. And as dark as it was on the ground there was still too much light in the sky being right between Davis and Woodland. We need to get that dark sky ordinance rolling again.



That's the Milky Way running along the left edge of the photo.



If it's not too breezy I might try going out again for one good and long star trails photo.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Cool -- How long are your exposures?

WayneT said...

The first was 90 seconds at ISO800 and the second was 4 minutes at ISO125. I want to try and do one for half an hour or longer but I think there might be too much light in the sky.