star trails

Lake Leschenaultia, Mundaring, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art @35mm, 119 frames at 30 sec, f/3.5, ISO1600

Here is another photo from our night sky shoot at Lake Leschenaultia on Saturday night. This photo was created by stacking 119 photos, and each of those photos was a 30 second exposure.

I used my Phottix Aion intervalometer to trigger the camera, and had to clean up a few of the frames, due to some random stranger on the other side of the lake shining his torch directly at us.

Milky Way over Lake Leschenaultia

Lake Leschenaultia, Mundaring, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 10-22mm @10mm, 30 sec, f/3.5, ISO3200

Last night I ventured out to Lake Leschenaultia with a friend, and with my oldest daughter, to shoot the night sky. We wanted to be far enough away from the metro area to avoid the light pollution, and the relatively late rising of the moon meant a dark night sky for a few hours.
It was cold, but our view of the night sky was not marred by any clouds, and we managed to get some worthwhile photos of the Milky Way and the stars.

Michelle and Tenieka

Golden hour is the period of time just before sunset, when the low orange light of the sun provides some interesting opportunities for photography. Last week Monday (a public holiday in Western Australia) I took some of my children, a nephew and a friend of my daughter to Lake Walyungup in Warnbro for a photography session during golden hour.