Spaceship
by Ralf Rohner
Title
Spaceship
Artist
Ralf Rohner
Medium
Photograph
Description
"Spaceship"
After 10:22 hours of night flight, the light dome along the European coast of the Black Sea is greating the tired aviators. Home is slowly coming closer, but still a long 2h30min away. Before the flight is over, full concentration will once more be needed, as the last is also one of the most challenging parts of the flight: approach and landing.
Airborne astrophotography is similar: It is almost as challenging, yields good results with the right technique and smooth conditions definately make life easier.
Incorporating the flight instruments is even more complicated: The dynamic range of such a scene is pretty wide. Even fully dimmed, the flight instruments are much brighter then the night sky outside and the illuminated buttons produce reflections in the windows. Furthermore, the depth of field is huge, spanning from the very close glareshield to the infinity of space.
A single exposure cannot capture the whole scene in good quality. I therefore blended a two step focus stack for the flight deck with a third, longer exposure focused on the stars.
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December 5th, 2019
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Allan Van Gasbeck
Congratulations! Your outstanding artwork has been chosen as a FEATURE in the “Long Exposure and Night Photography ” group on Fine Art America - You are invited to post your featured image to the featured image discussion thread as a permanent place to continue to get exposure even after the image is no longer on the Home Page. A remarkable image Ralf, well done.
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