Michael Menefee Photography

  • Home
  • Galleries
  • Work Requests and Stock
  • Search
  • Bio
  • Contact

Exploring the Night: Astrophotography and Nocturnal Visions

A variety of images featuring the starry skies and intriguing nightscapes.
Read More
Moon-mill
60 / 118

Moon-mill

Can you can spot which streaks are Orion?

The moon arcs across a Pawnee National Grassland sky in NE Colorado with an iconic Aermotor windmill in the foreground. The red lights in the distance are from a modern wind farm (Cedar Creek).

Shot Notes: This was an involved process: A. In the field I took 467 shots to create this image: 466 8 second shots for the trails and 1 shot with a handheld SB800 flash with CTO warming gell to light up the windmill/foreground; B. Batch convert RAW images to 16 bit TIFFs in the ever-living slow Nikon Capture NX2; C: Batch stack the 466 TIFFs with the startrails action in Photoshop; D: Clone out unwanted lens flair and tidy up resulting image with NR, other basic edits; E: Prepare image with warming flash used to help pop the foreground/windmill; F: Blend star/moon trails shot with warming flash shot; G: Post blend cleanup; H: Post it here!

I actually almost posted a whole different version that shows more of one still, see below in comments.

AermotorWindmillNightEveningStackingStackedStar TrailsStarStarsAstronomyMoonLunaLunarCOColoradoNECOWeldPawneeGrasslandPrairiePawnee National GrasslandNFSSB800Warming GellCTOLandscapeNatureNikonD3002009

From Popular Favorites

  • ---i---
  • Islands in the Celestial Stream
  • Jupiter's Rest
  • Kissing the Desert Sky Goodnight
  • Untitled photo
  • Jupiter in Sagittarius
  • Liquid Lunar Night
  • Billions and Billions of Stars and a Perseid Too!
  • Lunar Eclipse Landscape
  • Luminescent Night Sky on the Pawnee
  • Boundary Peak Nocturnal Visions
  • Untitled photo
  • Looking Towards Lunar Laguna Beach
  • Martian Lunar Eclipse Landscape
  • ♪♫ Meteor, on my Shoulders - Makes me Happy ♪♫
  • Milky Way Over Navajo Nation
  • Milky Way in Nevada Basin and Range Dark Skies
  • Milky Way Meets Moon on Kebler Pass
  • Moonlit Nightscape with Trails
  • Moon-mill
  • No Comments

All Images Copyright © Michael Menefee | All Rights Reserved

  • Photo Sharing
  • About SmugMug
  • Browse Photos
  • Prints & Gifts
  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Owner Log In
© 2023 SmugMug, Inc.