Starry Skies Adventure:
Trona and the Alabama Hills

• October 24-27, 2016
• Trona Pinnacles and the Alabama Hills
• Focus: Nighttime photography in the the field, with some classroom instruction
• Level: Intermediate and Advanced
• Maximum 8 Participants
• Tuition: $1495 (includes lodging for all four nights)
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The serene, surreal, beautiful landscapes of the Alabama Hills and Trona Pinnacles are wonderful places for night photography. The other-worldly pinnacles at Trona and sculptured rock formations and arches of the Alabama Hills are perfect complements to a sky filled with the Milky Way, or swirling star trails.

During this workshop you’ll learn light-painting techniques that will allow you to combine these landforms with the night sky to create striking images that capture the magic and mystery of the desert after dark. We’ll also cover, in detail, all of the techniques needed to photograph nighttime landscapes, including exposure, focusing in the dark, and image processing.

We’ll spend the first two nights at the Trona Pinnacles, then two nights in the Alabama Hills. The workshop is timed for just before the new moon, so we should have dark skies full of stars.

Here are some of the things we’ll cover:

– Equipment for nightime photography
– Exposure for stars and star trails
– Focusing in the dark
– Reducing noise during long exposures
– Light-painting techniques
– Planning nighttime photographs
– Using multiple exposures
– Image-stacking for star trails
– Processing nighttime photographs
– Blending image stacks

This promises to be a really fun workshop – I hope you’ll join us!

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