27 March 2016
lost in the dream
i took two fully charged batteries with me on my four day trek in andringitra hoping they would hold out long enough for me to capture all that i wanted. i still had some juice left on the final night so i walked to the edge of the campsite and set up my camera. i pointed it in a vaguely southernly direction, and set the timelapse function to take a 30 second exposure every minute. as the shutter began clicking my friend and i stared up at the ocean of lights as they twinkled and shot across the sky while the sound of tribal drums rolled in from the distance. it felt as special as it sounds. i managed to capture 50 shots before the battery finally gave in, and i decided to process them a little different to my previous startrails. as well as blending them together to create the moving lines, i also gave priority to the first capture which highlighted those individual stars as well as the milky way we witnessed moving across the sky. as with any star trail photo, this isn't an accurate account of what i saw at the time, but i think it's a better representation of how i felt.
here's the first photo of the sequence
here's the first photo of the sequence
i've posted 170 photos taken with my nikon d5300 - here are the last few i posted - view the rest here
i've posted 84 photos taken with a shutter speed of n/a sec - here are the last few i posted - view the rest here
i've posted 351 photos taken with an aperture of f/5.6 - here are the last few i posted - view the rest here
i've posted 8 photos taken with a focal length of 13.0 mm
i've posted 6 photos taken on 3rd September 2015
i've posted 39 photos taken from madagascar - here are the last few i posted - view the rest here
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