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Stars and Flowers at Pass Creek, Waterton Lakes

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A nightscape scene under a moonlit sky, on the Red Rock Canyon Road in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, looking back along Pass Creek to the south, with the Milky Way rising at left. Waterton is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The lights at right are from the Prince of Wales Hotel and townsite.

Flowers are in bloom here in early June, and the sky, clouds, and top of Vimy Peak at left are lit by light from the 4-day-old crescent Moon off frame behind the camera low in the northwest.

TECH DATA:
This is a blend of two sets of exposures, for the ground and sky:
- A set of five for the ground, with the focus shifted from near to far, and focus stacked in Photoshop
- A set of five for the sky, focused to infinity and in a vertical panorama moving up by 15° increments and stitched in Camera Raw
All with the RF28-70mm lens at 28mm and wide open at f/2 for 15 seconds each at ISO 3200 with the Canon R5, with LENR turned on. No tracking employed here. I shot this in part to experiment with focus stacking as a demo image. Winds prevalent in Waterton blow the foreground flowers around, making sharp foreground detail tough to acheive despite the focus stacking.
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A nightscape scene under a moonlit sky, on the Red Rock Canyon Road in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, looking back along Pass Creek to the south, with the Milky Way rising at left. Waterton is a UNESCO World Heritage site. <br /> <br /> The lights at right are from the Prince of Wales Hotel and townsite. <br /> <br /> Flowers are in bloom here in early June, and the sky, clouds, and top of Vimy Peak at left are lit by light from the 4-day-old crescent Moon off frame behind the camera low in the northwest. <br /> <br /> TECH DATA:<br /> This is a blend of two sets of exposures, for the ground and sky:<br /> - A set of five for the ground, with the focus shifted from near to far, and focus stacked in Photoshop<br /> - A set of five for the sky, focused to infinity and in a vertical panorama moving up by 15° increments and stitched in Camera Raw<br /> All with the RF28-70mm lens at 28mm and wide open at f/2 for 15 seconds each at ISO 3200 with the Canon R5, with LENR turned on. No tracking employed here. I shot this in part to experiment with focus stacking as a demo image. Winds prevalent in Waterton blow the foreground flowers around, making sharp foreground detail tough to acheive despite the focus stacking.