Lava, Meteor, and Milky Way in one photo

[SoCal_to_Hawaii]

Beautiful photo:

http://tinyurl.com/j227vp5

[Justin]

I saw this a week or so ago. I don't know how he allowed the exposure to be long enough to capture the Milky Way, but not have the lava be too bright from that long exposure.

Very cool.

[Johnd]

Thank you for posting this,it is so wonderful... Only in Hawaii.

jdo

[birdmove]

I think he must have taken two shots and then superimposed them. Used to do that way back when I developed black and white film and could do prints, enlargements etc. An example would be when I took a shot of my best friend Chuck playing his classical guitar. Kind of a "dark" feeling. Then I took a close up of tree bark. Put the negatives together, made a print. The tree bark gave some interesting texture. May sound dumb, but the shot was pretty nice. This person had to have put two photos together.

Jon in Keaau/HPP

[TomK]

Jon - another way to do it is with a graduated filter which enables the sky and land brightness to be balanced in one exposure. In this case, it would be used "upside down" as you usually use them to darken the sky.