Moonlight and stars, Labyrinth, Tasmania
Late at night, the half moon was shining brightly on this old tree allowing me to take a time exposure, resulting in beautiful star trails to complete the scene.
This image was a 15 minute time-lapse exposure.
The Labyrinth is a location in the Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair National Park in central Tasmania, Australia. The exact location is on the side of Lake Elysia.
Dimensions: 6144×4085 pixels.
Camera – Nikon D70
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tdub303
nice one. the tree is exposed well. was it only ambient light?
tasadam replied
Thank you. Yes – pretty much how it was. The exposure was actually about 7 and a half minutes, plus the same amount of time with the camera noise reduction.
More detail can be read here on a forum I posted an earlier edit to (the basic jpg is viewed there whereas here is an edit from the RAW file from the camera).
Tim Wright
Nice shot, very clear.
stickelsimages
Love this, well done! Cheers Lee
Stuart Chapman
The forum link is very helpful and this shot is just nailed. The lighting on the tree is just something else and the star trails are perfectly lit against a deep dark sky.
Rosemary Scott
Fabulous image…. the light on the tree is fantastic….. the stars finish it perfectly.
Jared Revell
super photo Adam…..i’m speechless…something I haven’t been able to master yet.
love the star trails, and back dropped against the the gnarled tree, perfect.
Kelly J
Wow!!!! This is really wonderful! I love the lighting on the tree it is awsome!
John Edwards
A powerful image
Basia McAuley
What an amazing shot! Love the light!
Rosalie Dale IPA
Enviable shot.
Wendy Slee
This is stunning! ITs beauty is subtle and sneaks up on you, you have presented the most wonderful creation here
tasadam replied
Thank you very much.
Tiffany Dryburgh
What Wendy said! Honestly, I can’t put it any better than she has. It is a beautiful image.
EvaMcDermott
Great exposure!
PlanBee
nice atmosphere surrounding this photo!
it definately reaches out to you!
peaceofthenorth
this is so well done .i have done a few long exposures and this is just perfect…wowser…steve
tasadam
Thank you all very much for such wonderful comments.
When I see an image that I appreciate a lot, I know how I feel.
To be able to have (obviously) created such an image for your enjoyment and appreciation, pleases me more.
This image does take me back to that place, such a wonderful night it was.
If you’d like to see the sunset from that evening, you can click
Here for a 1Mb gif file, or
Here for a larger gif file (8.5Mb)
Note that gif files have a maximum 256 colours so the resolution suffers a bit.
andrew poynton
excellent shot
tasadam replied
Thanks for looking, thanks for liking :-)
champion
Great shot, well done
tasadam replied
Thank you.
Andrew Ness
This is brilliant, and so unusual.
Tom Gomez
Wonderful imaginative work …
Cheryl Lunde
Brilliant! Looks like it is raining!
tasadam
Thank you very much for all your kind comments.
I am very happy to have discovered this image has been featured in the Timelapse/Long Exposure Photography group.
TassieMargie
I like this shot Adam. When I first saw it I thought it was snowing.
PablosVista
Well taken – brilliant choice of foreground
Vicki Ferrari
Beautiful time exposure! Do you find much of a problem with noise when you have NR off, on a 7.5 minute exposure? I also shoot RAW, sort of like a neg really. This is an emotive shot, absolutely fabulous! Love the twisted tree, like raw sadness or pain, living through timeless skies. Almost overwhelming, really. If you know what I mean…
tasadam replied
Indeed, noise was a problem on this particular shot – mainly due to the grain associated with ISO 800 on the D70.
I always shoot with NR turned on, otherwise there WILL always be some hot pink corners in the image – I had a beautiful long exposure of a night sky, but the battery died due to the cold weather while the NR was doing its thing, so the image was destroyed. I must have another go at them now that I have learnt a bit more about post processing and turn down selective colour channels.
If you see my first reply to the comments above, I posted a link – that links is to a photographic forum where I had this image. If you go to page 3 of that forum post you can compare the two images.
Ah, rather than all that, it’s easier for you if I post the link again.
Cheers!
Vicki Ferrari
Another D70 user?!! Wonderful! Though Nikon had to replace the body with a D70s when D70 got BGLOD syndrome! Very frustrating time that was too!!! I will check out your link and thanks for posting it for me again!
tasadam replied
Yes, though I now shoot with my D200 and have been eyeing up the bigger better faster stronger newer offerings.
By the way, anyone who wanted to know, BGLOD stands for Blinking Green Light Of Death – a “feature” of many D70 cameras (not mine). If you go HERE and in the top search tool, type bglod, you can read all about it.
MarkTV88
Wonderful photo, I love the way the tree has turned out.
Cathleen Taraw...
Love this moody one.
Mikhail Zvonkov
love it!