The 1910 Liberty Schoolhouse, a classic pioneer one-room school, on the Alberta prairie under the stars in the twilight of a spring night. 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.
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.
