Smith and Morehouse Milky Way
Last night was one of those "huge risk huge reward" trips. I had been planning on going up to Smith and Morehouse Reservoir to do some Milky Way shooting, but the long winter and crap weather timed with the snow level hadn't made it possible until this weekend. Of course we had a nasty storm come through Utah this week and yesterday it was supposed to clear out, but the cloud cover over the Uintas was still very heavy. In fact when I got up to Smith and Morehouse it was snowing! So I scouted the shots I wanted to take and then went to sleep under thick clouds. Woke up 3 hours later around midnight to perfectly clear skies and got to work.... This is my first shot with the Sigma Art 50mm lens, all I can say is DDAAYYAAMMMNN. This lens is incredible, I'm going to love shooting with it. Altogether 12 exposures went into this shot, all taken back to back with my Nikon D800E and Sigma Art 50mm on a Sky Watcher Star Adventurer tracking mount. Sky shots are 2.5 minute exposures at f2.8 and ISO 800, foreground shots are 2.5 minute exposures at f1.4 and ISO 1600, reflection shots 30 second exposures at ISO 3200 and f1.4.
