Photo Caption: Shooting the stars on the Inca Trail was of high priority to me, but unfortunately the almost full moon was in the rising Milky Way galactic center every night on trail except my last night; even then it was chasing her by 30 minutes.. in spite of that, I dragged friends and staff out every single night to shoot and PRAYED that the clouds would stay back.. As far as I’d seen and been told, the clouds are a prominent feature of the Andes Mountains, especially in areas dubbed “The Cloud Forest”…
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This shot was taken directly on the Inca Trail outside of our camp after the hardest day of hiking up to 14k ft; I can’t believe that 8 of us were up for this side adventure after the difficulty of the day..
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The Inca Trail lined up with where the Milky Way would be rising as well as the waterfall, so I set up here and started focusing while everyone else laid on their backs on the stones of the world famous pathway.. We stared at the most stars I had ever seen; The lack of light pollution made it possible to see an INSANE amount of stars! Periodically we saw flashes of light from 2 different directions from two different storms; it stayed cloudless for over an hour where we were!!
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I was really excited to see a different night sky than I am used to as well… while this shot doesn’t have the Galactic Center in it, the appearance of the southern cross above the horizon and this end of the MW was an absolute treat! What an epic adventure!!!
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This is 10 images stacked for the sky, and 5 long exposure images for the foreground.. we used a Lumecube.com/160.html (use code TRACYLEE for free US shipping) to light up the tree and people for the portraits I also shot of my friends… ——-
Foreground
5 images stacked in PS for NR
ISO 6400
F2.8
4 minutes
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Sky and trees
10 images stacked in SLS for NR
ISO 6400
F2.8
15 seconds
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Processed in LR & PS
@tokinausa 16-28 at 16mm
@slikusa CF-522 lite
@canonusa 6DMK1
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Photo taken at: Machu Picchu