Orion rising due east from latitude of +51° N. Taken in November, using Plaubel Makina 6x7 camera, 80mm lens. Combination of untracked exposure for just over an hour as Orion rose into position with lens stopped down to f/8 or so, then lens covered for two minutes and the drive then turned on. The lens opened up to f/2.8 and exposed for anoher 10 minutes or so with the equatorial drive tracking to add deep star points. On Fujichrome 100 film. Image is soft focus in the centre due to film buckling in the camera. Original was quite green and tried to de-green it as much as possible but the sky has subtle gradations in it that are hard to smooth out. Landscape masked and processed seperately to neutralize its color and brighten it, but landscape is not faked in. Cropping this vertically works well.
Orion, at left, in moonlight and brightening morning twilight over the Columbia Icefields in Jasper National Park, with Athabasca and Dome Glaciers on the morning of Sept 13, 2014. The waning gibbous Moon is just off the frame to the top. This is a panorama made of 4 untracked images, each with the 24mm lens for 10 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 800 with the Canon 6D. Stitched with PTGui. Though hard to see, there are a couple of spots of light on the glacier on Mt. Athabasca at left from headlamps from climbers ascending before dawn. I was able to watch their lights moving up the mountain while I was doing this pre-dawn shoot.
Orion setting in March over Mt Temple near Lake Louise in Banff National Park, Alberta. Taken in full moonlight with Plaubel Makina 6x7 camera, Fujichrome Velvia 50 slide film, 120-format, 80mm lens at f/5.6 and about 25 minute exposure. taken from Bow Valley viewpoint on Bow Valley Parkway. Taken March 1995.
