Wow, I'm finally getting to go do some camping and hiking in Death Valley. I've been close to going to Death Valley for the past year or so, but for various reasons I have never been able to go. Hopefully that will all change today. I'm going with two coworkers (one of whom really likes desert hiking and camping) this afternoon and we will return home on Saturday night. While we are there we are going to do 4 hikes and I plan to experiment with some night photography. I ended up buying a Canon TC80N3 Timer Remote Control for doing time lapse photography. I've experimented with it and tested it, so now I'm ready to get out and take some night time shots away from the light pollution of the city. Some of the shots that I'll be looking to take while in Death Valley include star trails in the background with dunes in the foreground (near Stovepipe Wells) and possibly the same thing with a Joshua Tree if I can find one. Other than that I'll be doing experiments by keeping the shutter open for various times and I'll play around with the aperture settings too. The TC80N3 will also come in handy when we go to Alaska next week since Anchorage is only getting about 5 hours of daylight right now.
Posted by troutm8 at December 13, 2007 09:08 AM