The 1910 Liberty Schoolhouse, a classic pioneer one-room schoolhouse on the Alberta prairie, at sunset as the stars are appearing, and with Venus in the clouds at left. Moonlight from the waxing Moon provides the illumination. This is a luminosity mask blend of a short exposure for the twilight and longer exposure for the rest, with a vintage effect using Luminar applied to the ground for the rustic tone. With the Laowa 15mm lens and Sony a7III camera.
Venus low in the evening twilight between the Hyades (left) and Pleiades (right) star clusters in Taurus, on April 27, 2018. I shot this from the Horsethief Canyon viewpoint on the Red Deer River north of Drumheller, Alberta. This is a stack of 6 x 13-second exposures at ISO 400 for the ground to smooth noise, and one 8-second exposure at ISO 800 for the sky to minimize trailing. All at f/4 with a 35mm lens on the Canon 60Da for increased red sensitivity in the sky colours. The smaller f/4 aperture added the diffraction spikes on Venus “naturally” in camera.
Venus low in the twilight in an April evening sky, with Orion and the winter stars setting in the west. Venus is between the Hyades and Pleiades. Orion is at left, Auruga is at centre, and Cassiopeia is at right. This was from the Hoodoos on Highway 10 east of Drumheller, Alberta, April 26, 2018. Light from the waxing gibbous Moon provides the illumination, as well as the last of the evening twilight. The ground is a stack of 6 x 15-second exposures to smooth noise while the sky comes from a single 15-second exposure. all at ISO 800 with the Nikon D750 and f/5.6 with the Sigma 14mm Art lens. And no, no amount of healing or cloning could cleanly get rid of the power lines in such a twilght sky. So I left them!
