West
Castlerigg Star Trail

This Image is a digital merge of two images of the same scene. The first exposure taken was at dusk: f4 @16sec.










The second image was exposed when dark: f4 @6hours.

My initial plan was for one negative of the scene with the stones being painted in with a torch to bring them out of the darkness.
But when viewing the negative it was easy to see the stones were not evenly illuminated, luckily I had taken a test exposure at dusk which showed the stones in more detail and hence the merge “cheat” of the foreground from one with the sky from the other.

Castlerigg Star Trail

This Image is a digital merge of two images of the same scene. The first exposure taken was at dusk: f4 @16sec.










The second image was exposed when dark: f4 @6hours.

My initial plan was for one negative of the scene with the stones being painted in with a torch to bring them out of the darkness.
But when viewing the negative it was easy to see the stones were not evenly illuminated, luckily I had taken a test exposure at dusk which showed the stones in more detail and hence the merge “cheat” of the foreground from one with the sky from the other.