country road twenty-six at night
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This is a 248 second (~4min) exposure @ f/8 taken a little more than an hour AFTER twilight under a nearly full moon.
I used to do a lot of long exposure work like this when I shot with film. This is my first attempt at anything greater than 30 seconds with digital. Just managing to get the fence straight in the picture on the first shot — which I did — is difficult enough, let alone actually framing the rest nicely and exposing properly.
This image required 4 shots for me to get it just right. In the first 3, I drastically overestimated the amount of light available to me.
If you look very closely — and you may need the “big size”:http://photos32.flickr.com/35310491_722de6505b_o.jpg for this — you can see streaks of light in the sky. There is one (that goes a different direction than they rest) that is a plane. The others (all the same length and same direction) are probably stars, although, I don’t know enough about astronomy to say that they aren’t satellites, planets, meteorites, or something else like that.
Your comments and suggestions are appreciated, as always.