The Milky Way
Hi All,

Been awhile since I've posted here, but thought I'd share this capture from last September in Escalante here in Utah. Beautiful clear night, with the Milky Way like I've never seen it before.
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dorel f 10 months ago
great work !!
Liwen Zhang 12 months ago
Wow!
Diego Gonzalez 1 year ago
This is really amazing!
Doug Solis 1 year ago
Stunning shot Dan, I love many things about this image, how you have frozen the Milky Way, the complimentary colors of orange/blue and yellow/violet. Great foreground elements all around.
Raymó 1 year ago
... wow, this is amazing!!! bless from Iceland, Ray ;-)
Ratko Nedovic 1 year ago
Beautiful.
guy binderman 1 year ago
amazing!
electricl 2 years ago
This is an amazing capture. Inspiring...wow!

Regards Omar
Vidar 2 years ago
Absolutely stunning! A very good reason to invest in a fish eye! :D
Keith Kamicar 3 years ago
pure beauty !
Andrei Baciu 3 years ago
Oh, my God! This is simply fantastic. Thank you for the joy of seeing such an amazing scenery.
:)
abrahamanakagung 3 years ago
wow, this one is amazing
Master of the Galaxy!!
Alex OBrien 3 years ago
amazing!
jojo 3 years ago
Beautiful...jojo
alabama 3 years ago
and i love the fisheye!
alabama 3 years ago
utah is one of the most beautiful places on earth. and this photo captures its magic perfectly. absolutely a stunner.
Giovanni Drogo 3 years ago
This shot is incredible! I cant't believe possible before see it!
Stunning work you show us here, Dan. Especially interesting to see, how you made this lovely shot. Keep clicking ;o) Cheers, Sass.
Rasmus Nielsen 4 years ago
beautiful !
roby bon 4 years ago
amazing!
Cupcake 4 years ago
Wow
Very Good
Eric Severson 4 years ago
Incredible!! Thanks for including the description of how this was done - the image of guys with headlamps running around to light the foreground is hilarious and perfectly understandable!
bojan djokic 4 years ago
jesuf f...... christ!! now you can give up photography!:) you reached yhe top!
Dragan Jovancevic 4 years ago
unbelievable...
Klaus Ratzer 4 years ago
Very amazing sky. I never saw something like this before. I like it.
//Klaus
Thomas Ljungberg 4 years ago
Just wonderful, I have no words... Perfect touch of fillight...
Astonoshing sky...
/Thomas
Pierre Boisgontier 4 years ago
What sky !! and what maestria in the use of fish eye ! Excellent.
Matt 4 years ago
That sky is amazing!
Willy Marthinussen 4 years ago
no words...awesome..
Kind regards --willy--
Suren Manvelyan 4 years ago
So impressive sky!!!
Let us know parameters!
It's gorgeous! I love this picture. Congratulations!

Petra
Jeremy Russell 4 years ago
I'll join the other many people who have added this to their favourites.

This is spectacular.

Wow.
Giulio.Ercolani 4 years ago
This is magic!
Scott Lanphere 4 years ago
GASP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jani 4 years ago
WAW! Indeed fantastic view and I like't this angle from frog perspecitve. Congratulation.
Cheers
Jani
Daniel 4 years ago
imprssive capure
Scott Richter 4 years ago
I have to remember to breath, looking at this wonderful shot. It's absolutely wonderful!
John Magruder 4 years ago
Oh my. What a great image. Thanks for posting it!!!
Chris Wöhrle 4 years ago
This is just amazing.
I like the wide angle effect.

Chris
Sam Agnew 4 years ago
Wow!!!
lucian olteanu 4 years ago
Outstanding! Beautiful!
Emily Bem 4 years ago
HOLY SMOKES!

I'm speechless....
Judy W 4 years ago
Now THAT's a landscape. Fabulous.
Riccardo Monaco 4 years ago
just wow!!!
Daria Endresen 4 years ago
I'm speechless.. Totally awesome :)
all is said above :) Great!
john turner 4 years ago
great stuff
Dan Ransom  Thanks.
Anne Lene Baanrud 4 years ago
Magnificent and exellent shot Dan, and out of this world beautiful!
All the best Anne Lene
Dan Ransom  Thanks Anne,

It was a beautiful night to experience.
Ursula I Abresch 4 years ago
Outstanding! Beautiful! Now I want to go to Escalante in the Fall!
Would you be willing to share details on how you made this, is it one exposure, more than one, very long, how do you measure light/aperture for something like this, whatever.
Dan Ransom  Thanks Ursula. I posted more info below, but yes, this is only one exposure.
Ursula I Abresch  Sorry, I got so excited looking at the image, I forgot to look if the answer was there already :)
Codrin Lupei 4 years ago
...really outstanding...an unbelievable picture...congratulations !...
...all the best...
Codrin
Andrea Orioli 4 years ago
This is just beautiful! I've never seen the milky way so clearly, at least in a picture taken with a fisheye!! May I ask you how long was the exposure and how did you lighten the rocks?
Congratulations!!
Andrea
Dan Ransom  Hi Andrea,

Thanks for the comment. The exposure is 30 seconds, ISO 3200, 15mm fisheye, 2.8. It has a strong contrast curve applied in post. Foreground light is provided by two of us loons running around with headlamps on, and one flashlight on Chimney Rock.

Exposure was just done by trial and error. I used ISO 3200 to prevent motion blur. Any longer than 30 seconds and the stars lose their shape. It took a team of three to make the image, between the headlamps, composition, and flashlight. Trial and error to get the light to look good in the foreground, and some local enhancement to the pillar in photoshop finished it off.
Andrea Orioli  Running around with handlamps on??!! Hard work! :-) But you've been rewarded with a great shot!
Andrea
fulvio pellegrini 4 years ago
I agree with Ralf...an "overlapping" picture!!
Congrats
F.
Dan Ransom  Thanks Fulvio.
Ralf Stelander 4 years ago
Just mind-blowing photo, you already have the most popular photo of the entire Onexposure collection and this is another winner! Good to see you again!
Dan Ransom  Hi Ralf,

Appreciate the kind words. Had no idea "the Wave" was so popular. I guess I need to stick my head in here more often. Love what the site is becoming, the level of work is simply incredible.
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Equipment
5D, 15mm 2.8 fisheye
Location
Escalante, Utah
Date
200709DD
Tags
STARS, ESCALANTE, MILKY
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