Pandanus star trails
Camping on the Qld central coast one night I took the opportunity to do a star trail photograph on my Fuji 6×17 camera. Using a spotlight I delicately painted in the dune and Pandanus during this 5.5hr exposure.
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Fuji G617 – Provia RXP 400.
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Pandanus star trails belongs to the following groups:
Astronomy, Beach Art, Landscape and Abstract Photography, Landscape Photography, Medium and Large Format Film Photography, Night Photography and Queensland the sunshine state. 2 photos per day
Rosalie Dale IPA
How clever is that!!!
Lisa Jewell
Wow this has the quality of this world and other world……mesmerising.
You are patient….
Cathy Middleton
Wow Tone, beautiful work. Lucky you didn’t sneeze right at the end!! I like the vertical panorama too.
Stephanie Johnson
I really like this one – so much planning and time has gone into creating it. Great work Tone!
Tony Middleton replied
thanks Steph ! I’m glad you like it.You wouldn’t believe how many Pandanus I ‘inspected’ along god knows how many km’s of coastline for an image of this type…
Peter Redmond
Tony, that is marvellous! 5.5 hours…I took a photo the other night with a 45 second exposure and I thought was a little long!! :-)
Cain Doherty
genius – nice placement of the axis too
CaseySmith
Tony knowing the exposure latitude of slide this is just a stunning shot and you only get one go at it, and you nailed it perfectly.
Tony Middleton replied
Thanks everyone for your comments.
Casey you are so right and I’m pretty happy with the result on this one – thanks !
Wendy Slee
Amazing…you truly have painted with light, while the heavens did the rest!
dinghysailor1
pure brilliance!
Kylie Reid
Your efforts have been rewarded with this fantastic shot, well done.
louise
Quite surreal Tony…immensely Beautiful….
Your selection of exposure factors so well chosen…
sky and foreground perfectly balanced…
cheers
Michael Bermi...
Stunning Tony!
Lachlan Doig
stunning
Globalphotos
Excellent result Tone, well done…
Am not receiving any of your work :(
Carly Faust
wow. good job tony..so beautiful.
Matt Lauder
Well done Tony.. it’s great seeing people do different things with slide film. What F stop did you use for this?
Tony Middleton replied
cheers Matt ! For memory I think this one may have been @ F8.
:)
elisab
That is so neat. Very nice job.
yankeegrl99
Wow! Very Neat! :-)
Geoff Coleman...
Oh man this is brilliant! – and doing it with film OMG hats off to you. And that light painting couldn’t be more perfect – just the right amount. Masterful.
Tony Middleton replied
thanks Geoff – glad you appreciate it. :)
helmutk
Great work Tony !!
Alan Findlater
excellent work well done
Helene Kippert
Amazing shot tony
Ben Messina
Great image Tony, all the elements of the image work very well together.
Tony Middleton replied
thanks Ben !
Andrew Bosman
WOW….. I say again…. WOW!!!!!
I bloody love this Tony.
Tony Middleton replied
Cheers Boz – I’m glad you like…err ‘love’ it ! :)
Tommy Seibold
wow..that’s amazing. i like how you cropped it as well, it really enhanced the way the spiral goes. really nice job you should be really proud
Tyler Thomas
This is the best star trails I have ever seen. Like the use of the spot light ti enhance the dune.
JKKimball
wow, beautiful !
JennyDean
great stuff!
Paul Thompson ...
excellent work and dedication to do a 5 and a half hour shot
Luka Skracic
Incredible shot Tony~
Andrew Murrell
A great panoramic here. the position of the tree over the pole and letting the stars rotate about the tree is a great way of reinforcing the tree’s presence in the image. Amazing!!
Scott d'Almeida
stunning ;cheers;
mike ellis
way cool!
Mariann Rea
Wow, Tony! 5.5h….and you painted all the time ;) Painting with the light is exiting but I would get tired :P Superb image!!
Tony Middleton replied
Thanks Mariann – It is a 5.5hr exposure, I didn’t need to paint the light in for that entire duration…only about 5-10minutes for memory.
thanks for your comments ! :)
Mariann Rea
hehehhe Tony, I was messing with your head ;)
OldBirch
Fabulous shot. Love the composition.
IngridSonja
Brilliant!
Dayonda 13 days ago
Awesome, Tony!!! Bet you had fun taking this one!
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