Cloud cover – the big bane of single exposure star trail photography – depreciated an already shaping up to be sub par star trail. I thought that framing the shot from the tree tops would be a good foreground. I was still a bit of a coward about straying away from the actual sky itself […]
Sometimes a parking lot will do. I took this in a hotel parking lot in Douglas, Michigan on a weekend trip out of the city. This shot was my first star trail with my 50mm prime lens, which can go down to f1.8, letting more light in. I loved the deep star trails etched by […]
This was probably my least impressive star trail to date. I was at my sister-in-law’s house in Lansing, NY and I opened the shutter for the night and left it till morning. I knew the battery was low which is why the shutter was only open for 68 minutes. I obviously didn’t want the shutter […]
This is a 45 minute star trail taken at Green River, IL. Green River is about a three hour drive from Chicago. It’s about the darkest skies I can get locally, so it’s where I was going in 2017 to practice my craft, The blur in these photos is the Milky Way stretching with the […]
My first star trail ever. I barely knew what I was doing when I hooked an intervalometer to my camera and hit the bulb open. I was using a $20 amazon aluminum tripod. Thank goodness it wasn’t windy or the camera would have blown over. At least I knew to take the camera off auto […]
It’s been a cold one, Chicago. The lake is makin’ ice VIII. The Titanic drove by – you in danger, girl. Stupid me stands outside in this nonsense slipping on the slushy seawalls to do some HDR water shooting. I can’t wait till it gets warmer. I discovered a photoshop process recently that will allow […]
The struggle was real with this backyard lunar eclipse photo shoot. The temperature was 10 degrees F last night. Aside from just not wanting to go outside in that cold, my Nikon runs the risk of freezing up at those temperatures if left outside too long. As such, I kept bringing my rig inside to […]
Second time is the charm. Death Valley National Park contains one of the darkest skies in North America so of course I definitely wanted to get my camera out and get some night sky shots that would be impossible anywhere near the great lakes region where Chicago’s city lights blanket out the stars for hundreds […]
Using a macro lens, I captured efflorescence (which is a fancy word for salt deposits) on bricks. The salt layer up close like this creates the illusion of landscapes or objects.
My company flew us out to Napa for a multi-office bonding retreat. We had the chance to go to three different wineries, including Silver Oak – one of my favorites. I was able to get in some early morning shooting at a nearby vineyard before heading out with the rest of my team for the […]
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