Another Starry Night
Starry Night 3, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger.
Briefly noted: This is another fisheye starry night stacked photo from Glacier Point. This one consists of 12 captures at four minutes and ISO 100 and f/3.2, and one high ISO capture at four minutes and ISO 800 and f/4. The bright purple comes from sensor flaring in the higher ISO capture in the stack. I intentionally left the foreground dark (the way it looks in the individual exposures) rather than trying to blend in a brighter foreground (as in the previous versions).
October 23rd, 2008 at 3:32 pm
[...] ambient light from San Francisco made the stars relatively less bright compared to the wilderness, and I wasn’t pointed north so my circles were [...]
October 27th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
[...] Compared to the D300, the D200 sensor seems to really heat up, which is where the purple flares come from. I kind of like them. Here’s another example showing the D200 sensor flaring, these star circles are from Yosemite at night. [...]
October 29th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
[...] they are in a darker environment. For example, the stars seem very bright indeed in this version of Starry Night, which shows the Yosemite [...]
August 12th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
[...] little harder to find at night. I knew Polaris was right above the Falls…..First Light Starry Night 3, photo © Harold Davis. View this image larger. Original Story: October 2008; revised [...]