Night Passage to Big Sur (Gary Lopez)

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Night Passage to Big Sur

Link: https://www.garylopezphotography.com/

Night Passage to Big Sur

Link: https://www.garylopezphotography.com/

Bixby Bridge is an iconic concrete open spandrel arch bridge on the Big Sur rocky coast. About 20 miles south of the City of Monterey, it is a dark sky area (Bortle 1) where the Milky Way blazes from horizon to horizon on summer nights.

This image is composed of four panels; two land/sea and two sky. I shot the land/sea images about 20 minutes after sundown to take advantage of the dim ambient light. I also used a large LED panel with a diffuser to light paint the vegetation in the foreground. I shot the sky after astronomical twilight, taking both 4-minute exposures and 20-second exposures. Weather is mercurial along this stretch of the California coast so six trips over a six-week period were required to gather the exposures needed for the final image.

Land/Sea     2 panels      2x3”       f/8       iso800
Sky               2 panels     10x240” f/4       iso800
20x20”    f/4       iso1600 plus 15 dark frames

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Description: Tweaked the color saturation and a few bad star issues.

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