Joshua Tree Star Trails and The Milky Way
Pretty new to Fstoppers and brand new to this group so I though I'd share a couple of night time images to kick things off.
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Charles Mercier
German contemporary art museum
Just a few shots - not of the art but the building interior!
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Last: Aug 03, 2026
Bartek M. Wojtkunski
Snowfall, Leon
A stone shepherd's cabin with an orange roof beside a high-altitude lake in the province of Leon during an unexpected late spring snowfall.
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Last: Aug 03, 2026
Dean Wilson
The Sun and the Moon: Edited to add last photo
I wanted to see how my 50 year old Canon FD 800mm f/5.6 s.s.c. would handle photographing both the Sun and the Moon.
1 - Revealing sunspots. (Square cropped)
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Last: Aug 02, 2026
Hector Reyes
Sterling in silhouette
I held a lighting workshop recently. Sterling was the model. I rarely shoot silhouettes but I wanted to incorporate that arch into a shot. Backlighting became an obvious choice.
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Hi Kiel - new to fstoppers myself. Love these photos - although I will say that it is a challenge to get the foreground lit properly. My go to guide is a youtube video on low level lighting with Royce Bair, he also has a blog that I find invaluable about using lite panels properly. I love this stuff, very addictive.
nice star trails (good colors) only a couple stars are clipped, assume you kept the ISO low?
Nice star trails. I have never really been into creating them, because I only have one camera, and I'd rather be getting traditional MW landscapes; however, that may change when I purchase a 2nd body.
I'm really liking that 2nd photo that looks like it was taken during blue hour. Very nice.