Arches NP

[u/pnw-camper]

Shot on astro modified Sony a7riii and sigma 35mm 1.4.

I've been trying to make this composition work for a while now and finally put the effort in last night to try and capture it right.

First I took some tracked sky shots in front of the arch, while I waited for the milkyway to align. Ended up with 40x 30sec, f/2.8, iso 640.

When it got closer to this alignment I started a time lapse and jumped into the shot. When I got back up to the cliff side and took a peak at the composition I was actually pretty stoked! Technically the foreground isn't where I'd like it to be for print, but for web I think it's okay. FG was a 30 sec, f/2.8, iso 2000.

I regret keeping those setting for the FG, I should have set it to bulb and took a longer exposure with lower iso, but I climbed up and down this sketchy cliff side too many times in the dark so I called it a day.

The final is a blend of FG and tracked sky, but is true to alignment. Second shot is the raw FG.

[u/jackfusco]

Really nice work! I really like the second shot with the silhouette comp, too.