15/01/2022
Featured photographer- .dill.photo use
This is the winter version of a composition I already did in summer. I just randomly took a day off work on the 14th of December to go there. I had no idea what I was gonna end up shooting. I didn't even realise that this was the night of the Geminid meteor shower 😂 I just packed my stuff after work and started the 4 hrs drive to Berninapass, one of only a handful of alpine pass roads that stay open during the winter months. After seeing 3 meteors while driving, I started to realise what's going on 😅
I reached my destination about an hour before moonset (which was at 3:15am) so I had plenty of time for the setup. Unfortunately, I stopped shooting when Orion disappeared behind the mountains so I didn't catch as many meteors as I had hoped. I also screwed up the settings for the light trails. But after driving up and down the road about 7 times, I was out of patience and just stopped trying. So, when I got home, I dumped the raws on my hard drive and ignored them for a while.
I ended up using the light trails that I shot with my other Sony A7iii, which was standing right next to the A7iii Astro. This one was shooting star trails that night.
📷 1: Sony A7iii Astro, Sony 14mm f1.8 GM lens
📷 2: Sony A7iii, Sony 16-35mm f2.8 GM lens
Sky: 10x 60sec, f2.0, ISO800, 14mm, median stacked
Meteors: added after median stacking, taken from 10 sky frames with the same settings as above.
Landscape: 1x 10sec f2.0, ISO3200, 14mm
Trails: 5x 30sec, f2.8, ISO200, 16mm
The 10 sec landscape shot was more like a test shot. I screwed that up too because I forgot to shoot the landscape 🤣 luckily it still worked out in the end 😅
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