Venus near the star Spica in Virgo, rising in the dawn twilight as morning stars, on November 15, 2018. The trapezoid pattern of the constellation of Corvus is at right. Light cloud added the natural glows and enlarged Venus, so it really does look “big” here! This is a stack of four 10-second exposures for the ground to smooth noise and one 4-second for the sky, each layer processed to bring out the colours of the sky and ground separately. All at ISO 400 and f/2.5 with the Sigma 50mm lens and Canon 6D MkII. This is a good example of Rule of Thirds composition. I added an Orton glow effect to the ground.
Sunset on an autumn evening over a wheatfield and prairie pond in southern Alberta. This was on Highway 56 south of Dalum, on September 25, 2018. This is a panorama of 3 segments, all with the Sigma 24mm lens, stitched with Adobe Camera Raw, with an Orton glow effect added with Luminar plug-in.
The Big Dipper and Arcturus in the evening twilight at Tibbitt Lake on the Ingraham Trail near Yellowknife, NWT on September 8, 2018. This is a single exposure, not HDR, as the HDR produced double stars and odd artifacts on the star images do to their motion. This is 13 seconds at f/2.8 with the Sigma 14mm lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 400.
