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Garth Battista
Halcottsville NY (Catskill Mountains)
06/10/2020
12:05 am

Equipment Details:

Sony a6000, astro modded. Sigma DC DN 16mm lens.

Post-processing Details:

Exif: f/1.4, ISO 800.
20 seconds X 227 frames for foreground and fireflies, stacked in Sequator; 40 frames for the Milky Way, aligned and stacked in Sequator. (All part of one continuous sequence.) Blended in Photoshop.

Image Details:

The Dark Horse rides the night sky among the dazzling fireflies, no longer harnessed to the old hay tedder.
This was shot in the field behind our house last night. With the moon rising after midnight now so we can see the Milky Way core rising, and fireflies nearing the peak of their bioluminescent mating frenzy, conditions are absolutely perfect for photographing my two favorite subjects together. I really don't want it to end!

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