How can you take a night picture of a observatory near the entrance of Joshua Tree National Park? We take you behind the curtain to discuss a local magazine and some quick problem-making to discuss the image is photographed. And you will learn more about making such photos.
When the door of the opportunity opens, walk through
On the occasion, you can create your own opportunities, even when this is not the primary intention. For example, I saw a post for a new local magazine on Instagram, titled “Title”Yuka Brevifolia: The Sol of Joshua Tree“Their purpose was to demonstrate a lively field including lifestyle, business, artists and cultural prosperity in the area around Joshua Tree National Park in California and the surroundings of the high desert.” Yukka Brevifolia “The name is another name for Joshua Tree. Integueingly, he also briefly mentioned the night sky.
As a local night photographer, I was thrilled with this mention. I emailed the magazine, encouraged them to include articles on how Joshua Tree National Park and the surrounding area were amazing for night photography and how it was a dark sky community.
Ten minutes later, I was surprised to see a answer from the co-founder and editor of the magazine. She said that she was interested in writing an article and providing photos to someone, asking if I would be interested. She wanted me to add my passion to the night photography in this area Sky boundary observatory in Twentinine palmsJoshua is located next to the former entrance of Tree National Park.
I felt excited to write the article. I included two pictures of Joshua Tree National Park from my Trove, which I had taken over the years. However, there is a shortage of any images of the observatory, I drive the next evening there.
Picture of observatory
I arrived at night to know that there was a high school group that used to talk to some astronomers about the night sky. I photographed them to enter the Dome Observatory during the blue hour. They were an influential 14 “penetration through the dome through the selected telescope.
The dome was opened on top, revealing a slow red glow from the inner light. Among the complicated red glow and beautiful light from the full moon, I knew that I had to take this photo.
For this picture, I felt that I would try to show the time passing through the movement of stars. I establish the back of the observatory. I argued that this contingent flashlight would reduce the beam or the possibility of hitting someone into my trippai.
I determined the best exposure for a shot. This was largely involved to ensure that the red glow from inside would not be very bright. Since the full moon was almost outside, it was not difficult to do.
After determining the exposure, I just kept the camera away, taking a picture one after the other in succession. Why? I was going to show the movement of stars for a long time by creating star trails!
Stars -movement
Star trails are made by the rotation of the Earth, because we are always, moving, moving, walking …
Star trails can be photographed in many ways. Here, I used a method called “stacking”. This is done using you On the tripod Camera and take one photo after another for several minutes.
Then you can load them in a free program like StarStaxOr you can use Adobe Photoshop CCEither the program adds your gradual images to a single image that shows the trails of stars perfectly.
I discuss Another article in more detail three easy steps to create Star Trails in Photoshop,
My camera and intervalometer was set to take a photo of the sequence of photos for an hour, taking one photo after another, each photo in a length of two minutes. Click! Click! Click!
However, soon something that would intervene with the result.
Uh oh, dome is roaming!
I heard a voice inside, “We are going to see the next moon.” And of course, several minutes later, the entire top of the dome began to rotate so that the binocular could withstand the moon.
Knowing that Dome would be blurred by this movement, I still selected to run the camera and instead spent time interacting with a couple of other visitors.
Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best
When I stacked all the photos, in a total of 60 minutes, in Photoshop, I noticed that the Observatory Gome had actually moved several times. As expected, it was blurred.
I started taking pictures from the stack. On the way about half the way, I reached a point at a 34 -minute mark, where the dome was no longer blurred. Twenty -thirty -four -minute star trails were sufficiently long, so I felt, so I went with her.
Aeropia
My photo had about 12 or 13 airplane trails. It became the most time-taking part of the entire post-processing. I started Using layer masks to eliminate many airplane trails,
Photo about light painting
I should mention that I “kiss” a bit of warm white light at the observatory, using in one hand Protomachin LED 8I did it to make it in a little more detail. To make it natural, I targeted the light at the same angle because the moonlight was illuminating it.
This technique is known as “light painting”, where a handheld light source is used to illuminate a view during long exposure. Your flashlight becomes your paintbrush, so that you can literally paint with light.
More about the article in Yukka Brevifolia magazine
Excited about the boundary observatory of the sky, I returned there the next night with my friend. I presented my article and photos in the magazine two hours ago. While installing my camera, I have a “cha-chating!” Sound from my phone. I had already received payment from the magazine! This is as soon as you can get!
The magazine debuts on September 1, 2025, and it will include my article “The Night Skyse the Limit in the High Desert” -many of my photos.
