Celestial Trails - Simpson Desert, Qld
Getting to know the stars is an important part of landscape photography. Using a compass and G.P.S I was able to pinpoint the South Celestial Star. Because of the rotation of the earth, using a six hour exposure gives the feeling of the stars trailing around this point. I used a 5 million candle power flashlight to illuminate the sand dune. Because of the massive size of the dune I had to climb an adjacent dune and paint the light on from there.
Camera – Fuji Gx617
Film – Fuji Velvia
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Celestial Trails - Simpson Desert, Qld belongs to the following groups:
Astronomy, Australian Contemporary Photography, Film Photography, Landscape and Abstract Photography, Landscape Photography, Light Painting (with tips and techniques), Medium and Large Format Film Photography, Night Photography, Panoramas 3:1 Ratio Minimum, Skyscapes, Technical Photography and Timelapse/Long Exposure Photography
Tony Middleton
absolutely brilliant Ben ! This is my favourite photograph of yours and it looks awesome printed large !
Matt Halls
What clever work!! Magnificent result Ben
David Iori
Great Work Ben
Kirk Hille
Amazing ,
Love the composition and color .
The spot light worked well to bring out the exposure on the sand
Barry Norton
Brill great use of technology
Ben Messina
Thanks everyone for the comments, much appreciated. Barry not sure if you read the description, this image is one exposure done over a six hour period, on film, no technology needed.
Daniel Bowen
Awesome image, well done love hoe you have ilumanated the sand dune as well as having teh star trails in the image
Macky
........and now all of a sudden I feel small. :-) Beautifully ‘engineered’
Annette Blattman
stunning
Globalphotos
Wow, you certainly had to plan this one and what a fabulous resulting image !!
Paul Scarsella
awesome work!
NickMonk
This is a fabulous shot Ben, well done. There is nothing worse than attempting a shot of this technical difficulty and fluffing it up, you must have been relieved when you got this one back from the lab!
Christina Vasi...
6 hours??? holy heavens!! that is patience. it was well worth it, awesome shot!
amarica
great shot
toolesque
WOWSA! How did you do SIX hours?
I get tired after three or four minutes! Great photography, I appreciate this.
Lisa Kenny
this is brilliant Ben!
Jess Rodda
That looks amazing!
Matt Lauder
Excellent work Ben… it is shots like this that really show your skill as a professional photographer. As a fellow slide film shooter I can see that you only get one shot at a shot like this.
salsbells69
Excellent..wonderful image. Well done.
Mark Greenmantle
That is just nuts – wow =)
Bloody nice work Ben.
ozlat
are you saying you had the bulb open for 6 hours?
Paul Pichugin
Quite possibly one of the most amazing photos I’ve ever seen..
- paul
Morgan MacLaren
This really makes you feel you are part of a moving universe!
Davide Montell...
Stunning! Outstanding work. You planned so patiently an unrepeatable shot. I admire you!
simonesphotos
Wow this is truly sensational!
TaGiRoCkS
wow
wildrider58
Awesome image
Luka Skracic
Incredible imagery.
Matthew Stewart
Wow Ben, stellar work on this.
Paul Moore
Yep, that is awesome!