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Hello, all.

Here is a montage of 5 images taken with my Nikon D-70 and an 18 mm lens. This was taken in Black Mesa State Park in the Oklahoma panhandle. A single inextingushable sodium vapor light illuminates the landscape at both ends of the nearly 180° span of the image. Thanks for looking.

Steve

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Steve Mathis said:

Hello, all.

Here is a montage of 5 images taken with my Nikon D-70 and an 18 mm lens. This was taken in Black Mesa State Park in the Oklahoma panhandle. A single inextingushable sodium vapor light illuminates the landscape at both ends of the nearly 180° span of the image. Thanks for looking.

Steve

That's a beautiful shot!

Fantastic! May I ask which 18mm lens and F-stop
you used?

Beautiful....how long were the exposures?

Thanks
brock

Well, thanks for the kind words, everyone.
The lens I used is the Nikkor 18-70 mm f/ 3.5 - 4.5 that came with the camera. At 18 mm, the lens is at f/3.5. I exposed each frame for 4 minutes at ISO 1600, and let the camera do the noise reduction. I did some adjusting of the individual images with Photoshop during the "stiching" operation to get the levels, etc. to all match up.

Thanks again,

Steve