Sunday, June 3, 2012

@Night: Joshua Tree National Park

Night Sky Photography poses very unique challenges!. Dennis Mammana's workshop was very practical, packed with tips and real hands on experience followed by critiquing the fotos taken by the participants, the following day. For me, learning by doing mistakes has been the norm :))  With no nearby light pollution, the night sky at JTNP was brilliantly awesome with 1000s of stars you never get to see from a city or suburb. Of the many fotos I took at night, I like the following. All these fotos were taken at the Hidden Valley Picnic area of the Joshua Tree National Park.




The rest of the fotos I took....... fall in to the category of  "lessons learned" :))

8 comments:

  1. Beautiful sundu! Where the orange light reflection in the 3rd picture came from?

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    1. Sathi, Thanks :)) You still have good eyes ;) The orange light on the trees is from a car pulling in to the nearby parking lot. The dotted yellow line at the bottom left is from a car at a distant road. The squiggly green line at the bottom right is from a fellow fotographer walking around with his green light :)) The constellation Scorpio is rising between the big rock and the Joshua tree in the middle.

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    2. i remember that we took some photos @ Zion; the car lights added a new design to the picture! loved it!

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    3. yep...need to put up those fotos sometime :))

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  2. Liked the middle one. The tree branches looks like clapping and dancing in a joy. Did you learn to use PS to reduce the noise on a high ISO clicks?

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  3. Beautiful! Photos from PRO Photographer Sundu!

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  4. Siva, I am glad you like it :))

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