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Cave Lights

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 20mm f/1.8 S @ 20 mm, 38 sec at f/4, ISO 100 + 30 sec at f/1.8, ISO 800 x 113 Frames

I’d taken my old Nikon Z7, the stellar astro Nikkor Z 20/1.8 S lens and a spare tripod with me on our late night trip out to Lincoln’s Rock in the Blue Mountains. With the view that I might be able to do something like star trails with it whilst we were busy light painting and static milky way shooting

Just before 1AM Gerry and I had decided to move to the small cave to shoot static milky way on the horizon images out of the cave mouth

Before climbing up to that higher cave tho, I setup my spare shooting setup in this lower camping cave – with it’s manmade front wall – looking out at the stars and night sky through the opening. I left it running with star trails frames whilst we went “upstairs” and came back later to collect

This is 113 x 30 second frames (just under 1 hour) of star trails blended with a lightly light painted inside the cave frame

Note: These photographs (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger. To see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer click any of the images.

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