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North East Creek, Bar Harbor, Maine July 24, 2014, 8:00 PM

I took this with Vincent Lawrence of Acadia Images Photography Workshops at sunset as the tide was coming in. It is an HDR blend of 9 exposures from both SNS-HDR and Photomatix’ Merge to 32-bit HDR Plugin for Lightroom. I layered my favorite parts of each image in Photoshop, since neither had both the highlights and shadows quite the way I wanted them. 

Camera settings: 34mm, f/8, ISO 200, 9 exposures of 1 EV stops from 1/400 to 0.6 seconds (in camera bracketing), 4650°K white balance. 

Equipment used: Nikon D700, Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8, Really Right Stuff TVC-34L tripod and BH-40 ballhead with camera L plate. 

Prints available at http://galleries.aaronpriestphoto.com/Coastal/AcadiaNationalPark/

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Milky Way and moonrise in my back yard, Lee, Maine, June 20, 2014, 01:55 AM 

This is a single frame of a timelapse taken shortly after the moonrise (left of frame) had cleared the trees behind my pond and lit my house. There was a lot of beautiful sky glow that night (the green and purple hues). 

This is the same RAW file exported twice out of Lightroom with two different exposures for the ground and sky, and then manually blended in Photoshop with a mask. Shot with a Nikon D700, 14-24mm f/2.8, Ramper Pro, & DewBuster dew heater controller w/ Dew-Not heater strip @ 14mm, f/2.8, ISO 3200, 30 seconds. 

http://galleries.aaronpriestphoto.com/Night/2014-06-19-Milky-Way/

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Milky Way reflecting over my backyard pond in Lee, Maine on June 19, 2014, 11:11 PM. I went out to shoot a timelapse of sunset, the Milky Way reflecting in my pond, and moonrise last night. I ran into a lot of battery and cable issues anddidn’t get the full timelapse I wanted, but I still salvaged a few good frames. This was taken a little after astronomical twilight (23:02) and before moonrise (47% at 00:07) when the sky was at its darkest. There was a lot of beautiful air glow last night, and a crazy amount of dew. The light on the grass and trees is from my kitchen window. Shot with a Nikon D700, 14-24mm f/2.8, Ramper Pro, & DewBuster dew heater controller w/ Dew-Not heater strip @ 14mm, f/2.8, ISO 3200, 30 seconds. Edited with Lightroom.

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Milky Way at play

The Milky Way shines over a swing at Lily Bay State Park on Moosehead Lake, Maine on October 4, 2013, 11:33 PM. The bright star in the middle is Vega. I set the tripod low on the ground for this shot and combined two exposures in Photoshop: ISO 3200, 30 seconds, f/2.8 for the sky and ISO 1600, 4 minutes, f/2.8 for the ground. The orange glow is light pollution off in the distance, color shifted and saturated with Lightroom to look like sunset. Shot with a Nikon D700 camera, 14-24mm f/2.8 lens, Promote Control, and Really Right Stuff TVC-34L tripod, leveling base, & ballhead @ 14mm.