MARIN ARTS & CULTURE 21
Crater Lake
For me to photograph the Milky Way over Crater Lake, I needed to find a location on the north side of the Lake. This old tree is a popular venue for photographers on the North Rim overlooking Wizard Island. For the five to six hours that I was there waiting for the Milky Way to rise in the sky, there were at least 20 other photographers who came and went. Most just wanted to photograph the tree. Others came to try various light painting methods. Because the night sky is so dark, the Milky Way requires an exposure that is 15,000 times greater than a normal exposure during the day. I do this with a combination of increasing both the time and the ISO settings on my camera. The foreground portion of the image was taken just after sunset to use the ambient light in the sky. This image was selected by National Geographic as the “Photo of the Day” for July 22, 2015.
Amelia @ 1&7
I got this idea for a photograph of our granddaughter from another photographer. I made a large print of half of her face from a photo I took in the same location when she was one year old. The toughest part was getting a seven-year-old to sit still and hold the photo in front of her face in the perfect location. I used a Photoshop plug-in from Nik software called Silver Efex to give the photo an antique look. This photo was First Place for Black and White at the Marin County Fair.