Yosemite and More

The last thing I did during my trip to Bodie was shooting  star trails. I'd never had much luck but Jeff Sullivan provided me with guidance and  let me borrow a intervalometer. This consists of 65 30 second shots with a 1 second delay between each shot. Then I processed them through StarStaX software. It took me this long to process them because I was afraid it would be a bust. Might just have to buy one of those intervalometers.  I believe the streak across the bottom-middle is a comet. Go, See, Enjoy and Photograph Dave

Here's my second installment on my trip to Bodie. Jeff Sullivan was leading our workshop. He was a great help to me since I had never had much success with trying to photograph the Milky Way. Jeff runs a number of workshops during the year. Check  out    http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/. I learned a little about photoshop and post editing trying to bring these photos to life. I used a 16-22mm lens on a full frame Canon 6D. This wide angle of a lens leads to a lot of distortion, something that has kept me in the past from using wide angle lenses. During post processing I used the warp tool to bring a better prospective  and modify some of the distortion. I also used a layer mask for color correction on the area that were 'lightpainted'. I left the  Milky Way pretty much alone. Not going to add a lot of comments this time. Bet you weren't expecting that from me. Go See, Enjoy and Pho...