Night Falls
October 2018
The Buchan Burn Waterfall on the Merrick trail under the dark night sky of the Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park, SW Scotland.
Taken in darkness, this is by far the most technically difficult image that I've ever attempted and many hours went into it. I fully intend on doing more shots like this having learned a lot from the experience.
Fuji X-T2 with Samyang 12mm f2 NCS lens. No filters.
Foreground: 3 images focus stacked @ 2 mins / f2 / ISO 200
Sky: 16 images stacked and aligned @ 15s / f2/ ISO 6400
Composited and finished in Photoshop CC 2019
Huge thank you to
@kenoh for giving me an extra eye behind the scenes when editing - I appreciate the help as I felt I was getting tunnel vision having stared at the image for hours in editing through various phases of compositing. I owe you a print or a beer or something!
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