Paul Knightly on Nostr: This was a challenging photo. I captured it about 7 years ago while driving from Salt ...
This was a challenging photo. I captured it about 7 years ago while driving from Salt Lake City up to southern Montana to be in a friend's wedding. When I started looking into the logistics of my arrival time, I realized there would be an opportunity to photograph the Milky Way somewhere under the dark skies of northern Utah or southern Idaho. Not wanting to stray too far off the highway, I looked for areas that might offer a unique foreground for the composition.
I soon realized that the highway alignment (northwest to southeast) would allow for a "highway to the stars" type of image, and started looking for an ideal overpass. This one caught my eye and I couldn't have been happier with the results. It took some time to capture, as it was necessary to get all of the Milky Way images without traffic on the highway, and then of course I needed to get a few images with light trails from the cars on the highway below.
I didn't have star tracker at the time, but other than that there are few things I would've changed considering the challenge and how it turned out!
#Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #MilkyWay #Landscape #LandscapePhotography
I soon realized that the highway alignment (northwest to southeast) would allow for a "highway to the stars" type of image, and started looking for an ideal overpass. This one caught my eye and I couldn't have been happier with the results. It took some time to capture, as it was necessary to get all of the Milky Way images without traffic on the highway, and then of course I needed to get a few images with light trails from the cars on the highway below.
I didn't have star tracker at the time, but other than that there are few things I would've changed considering the challenge and how it turned out!
#Astrophotography #Astronomy #Space #MilkyWay #Landscape #LandscapePhotography