David Kingham
Whitney Pocket Geminids
On Saturday I made the long drive from the Grand Canyon to find clear skies in Nevada for the Geminids meteor shower. I picked a remote location called Little Finland but underestimated the time it would take to get there, thankfully on the way was this location called Whitney Pockets. After a fantastic sunset and rainbows from the clearing storm I set up for my long night of shooting. I setup both the Fuji XT-1 and the X-E1, I ended up catching a lot more meteors with the X-E1 facing East in the early evening. Fortunately it was a beautiful calm night and I was able to lay outside in my sleeping bag watching the meteors for several hours before I dozed off.
In all I captured 24 meteors, I composited them all into one shot and corrected their rotation to match the radiant of the background image. Taken with a Rokinon 12mm f/2 at f/2 ISO 6400, 25s when the moon was down, and 15s when the moon rose. For the forgeground I used one light painted exposure.
Whitney Pocket Geminids
On Saturday I made the long drive from the Grand Canyon to find clear skies in Nevada for the Geminids meteor shower. I picked a remote location called Little Finland but underestimated the time it would take to get there, thankfully on the way was this location called Whitney Pockets. After a fantastic sunset and rainbows from the clearing storm I set up for my long night of shooting. I setup both the Fuji XT-1 and the X-E1, I ended up catching a lot more meteors with the X-E1 facing East in the early evening. Fortunately it was a beautiful calm night and I was able to lay outside in my sleeping bag watching the meteors for several hours before I dozed off.
In all I captured 24 meteors, I composited them all into one shot and corrected their rotation to match the radiant of the background image. Taken with a Rokinon 12mm f/2 at f/2 ISO 6400, 25s when the moon was down, and 15s when the moon rose. For the forgeground I used one light painted exposure.