Can landscape photography benefit from anticipating optimum sun angles? From the looks of this sand dune shot that we anticipated and pursued, it sure seems so!
Is a landscape photography workshop compatible with night photography? In the short days of winter, when sunrise is 6:48 am and your dark sky night photography starts at 6:30 pm, landscape and night photography work particularly well together!
So we treated the daytime hours like a landscape photography workshop, and being able to pursue comet, meteor, star trails and meteor shower composites and time-lapse video was a nice bonus! Leaving cameras out shooting for a few hours, here’s a look at a Geminid meteor shower composite:
Time-lapse footage of the Geminids on the peak night of December 13-14, 2018 was also easy to assemble from the same shots:
Here’s the north-facing view:
Here’s a wide angle night image with blue-green Comet 46P/Wirtanen visible in the sky above:
I’ll gradually work through the landscape photos from the trip in the coming weeks and add some highlights below. Meanwhile we’ll be applying everything we’ve learned into the 2019 photography workshop schedule.
On my way down to Death Valley:
Upon arriving at Hwy 395 on my way back from Death Valley:
Winter is a great season for photographers to be out!
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