Last Saturday evening, I ventured out with a fellow member of the Canmore Camera Club, Kevin McCormick for some night scenes. Our destination was an old church, near Morley, AB, a First Nations settlement within the Stoney Reserve. Our purpose was to photograph the church with the night sky as a background. We chose this evening for the absence…
Category: Night
Milky Way Over Mount Rundle
Earlier this week, I went out with members of the Canmore Camera Club for a night time shoot. Our purpose was to capture pictures of the Milky Way, the galaxy that contains our Solar System. Its name “milky” is derived from its appearance as a dim glowing band arching across the night sky whose individual stars…
Sedona Visit
Earlier this week, we made a brief trip to Sedona, Arizona about 1-1/2 hour north of Scottsdale. Known as Red Rock Country, it’s a popular destination for tourists to enjoy the beautiful scenery, to venture out into the desert in jeeps and yes, to take pictures. My goal was to get some night shots in…
Full Moon
Photographing a full moon scene after dark can be challenging. The difficulty results from the brilliance of the moon relative to its darker surroundings. A camera cannot manage the strong contrast, leaving the photographer with three choices: expose the moon to see it as would the human eye, or expose the rest of the scene to see it…
Night Scenes
This evening I went out to do some astrophotography, a type of photography for recording images of astronomical objects and large areas of the night sky. I went to where I expected there would be very little if any light pollution, an area just east of Canmore, near Dead Man’s Flats. This is a locationI know well from previous visits,…