The bright gibbous Moon over the Elbow River in Kananaskis Country in southern Alberta, on a hazy autumn night, September 2015. The Moon is surrounded by some coloured corona rings from diffracton fom droplets in the clouds. The stars are trailed because of the stacking of many exposures. This is an HDR stack of 9 exposures from 45 seconds to 1/5 second merge in Photoshop with HDR Pro utility.
A panorama of the flower-filled Blakiston Valley on a moody moonlit cloudy night at Waterton Lakes National Park, June 24, 2015. The Big Dipper is at upper right, with its handle pointing to Arcturus at left of centre. Spica is at far left. A subtle halo surrounds the first quarter Moon which has just set behind Crandell Mountain at left. This is a 9-segment panorama with the Nikon D750 and 24mm lens, mounted portrait, and stitched with Photoshop using spherical geometry and corrected with Wide Angle Adaptive Lens Correction to straighten the scene. Liberal use of Highlight and Shadow recovery in ACR and Shadows and Highlights in PS brought out the flower-filled foreground while retaining detail in the bright sky. Each segment was 30 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 1600.
A partial lunar halo around the first quarter Moon over the flower-filled Blakiston Valley on a moody moonlit cloudy night at Waterton Lakes National Park, June 24, 2015. This is a 4-segment panorama with the Nikon D750 and 24mm lens, mounted portrait, and stitched with Photoshop and corrected with Wide Angle Adaptive Lens Correction to straighten the scene. Liberal use of Highlight and Shadow recovery in ACR and Shadows and Highlights in PS brought out the flower-filled foreground while retaining detail in the bright sky. Each segment was 30 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 1600.
