For anyone who follows my blog will be aware that my favourite form of photography is landscape photography, but my other favourite is night photography. I'm really wanting to get some stunning milkyway shots and I thought last night would be the ideal evening for it.
The milkyway core is now visible at a more respectable time, in the northern hemisphere it's now around midnight, rather than the very early hours of the morning.
I still had to battle the tablets I'd taken as they tend to knock me out, but as 12am approached, the sky still looked clear, there'd not been a cloud up until this time.
I swapped my lenses over in the house, rather than fumble around in the dark at the bottom of the garden, I put on my samyang 14mm f2.8 lens, got my tripod out the boot of the car and headed down the garden.
I looked up and to where I wanted to shoot, and saw it, a massive blanket of cloud quickly rolling in straight over where I was, I'm thinking to myself, just my bloody luck, it reminded me of a timelapse I was recording, as I wanted to get the moon moving across the sky, and all I got was a point of where clouds started to form and completely covered the moon.
I never seem to have any luck with the weather lol.
Sadly, I class last night as a failure, I'm not gonna bother staying up tonight, as I'm off to a cold war bunker tomorrow morning.
I know we can't all have perfect shots, but I do strive for that perfection, or at least something I can say "I can't believe I've shot that!".
All pictures in this post shot using a Sony A7iii camera at iso 800 / 20 sec exposure at F/2.8. If you look at the last shot, I couldn't see the field as it was really dark at the top of the garden, it always impresses me with what a camera can pick up.
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All the best :-)
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Wow, that was amazing scenery, i like it. 👍
Thank you, sadly it won’t be like that for much longer, they will be building houses on it soon 😥
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It's crazy how it looks like broad daylight yet its midnight. I haven't dared to take night shots just yet, except the one time of a full moon. I often see these amazing images that people take and you can see things that don't even look real. I still haven't figured it out yet. But I'm sure you and I will both achieve the images we strive to get one day.
Im happy that you shared images that in your eyes are a ''failure''. I have planned to do the same as I think it is good to show them and that we are not always perfect even though we sometimes do capture that one perfect image making it look like we are. Imperfectly perfect human beings haha. It's a journey that we take and the good the bad and the ugly makes it all wonderful!
Thanks for your lovely comments, when I first got a DSLR it was to do night shots and long exposures, that was a few years ago now, and it was an old Canon EOS 1100D - 12mp camera, but it still shot good images. Even to this day, I am still surprised how an image looks at night on a long exposure. If you need any tips or advice on doing it, please feel free to send me a message, I'd be more than happy to help. Although the main thing you need for any night photography and long exposures is a sturdy tripod. Thanks again :-)
I've put more faith into my cameras ability than in my ability to take the image XD I think it should be the other way around hahaha. I may just ask for those tips some day. For now I need to go on a new adventure and see what else I can get cool shots of ^_^
Take care and have fun!