THE STARS ABOVE
Rod made this image at Whiskey Bay in the Wilson’s Promontory using his Pentax KP on a tripod and one single 30 second exposure. Post processing was done using the Pentax Digital Camera Utility 5 from a RAW image. As Rod comments - “The light from a new moon can be seen in the upper right hand corner of the image, with the after glow of a sunset in the bottom right hand corner”.
Astrophotography is challenging because we are asking our cameras to do something that we ourselves are not that good at - seeing in the dark. We can see the camera’s struggle in the “noise” of the picture (the graininess) and also the hint of star
