Milky Way Arch over Pouakai Tarns - 142931
By: Brendan Larsen | @brendan.larsen.photography
https://nzastrocompetition.com/new-zealand-astrophotography-competition-2024/nightscape-artistic/?cid=15&cac=submission&ctx=page&cm=1&sid=142931
Sky is 70 shots (untracked) and foreground is 11 shots. ISO6400 for all shots. The hard part was getting all of the shots before cloud rolled in as at times during the night there was some cloud. It's rare to get this location with no cloud and no wind and so I was really glad to be able to pull this image off as I've been to this location multiple times and until then never been able to get the arch image I wanted. This is the low res image (I tried on the aurora section to upload the high res image but was told there's a 5MB limit). The other tricky thing with this image was getting the reflection to match the sky, which is another reason that I only used 13 sec exposures for every shot.
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