{"id":982,"date":"2012-08-16T11:34:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T11:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2012\/08\/16\/spectacular-wedding-photo-showing-the-milky-way-floating-overhead\/"},"modified":"2012-08-16T11:34:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T11:34:59","slug":"spectacular-wedding-photo-showing-the-milky-way-floating-overhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/spectacular-wedding-photo-showing-the-milky-way-floating-overhead\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectacular Wedding Photo Showing the Milky Way Floating Overhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Melbourne, Australia-based wedding photographer Lakshal Perera shot this stunning wedding photograph a few days ago showing the newlywed couple in the foreground and the Milky Way floating in the night sky. The scene was extremely dim, allowing for a clear view of the sky. Perera captured it in a single exposure using a Canon 5D Mark III and 16-35 f\/2.8L lens at 17mm, 71 seconds of exposure, f\/5.6, and ISO boosted up to 4000 (wow). The couple is relatively sharp given that they had to stand still for 71 seconds!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">If you want to shoot something similar, here\u2019s a tip: this is the perfect situation to have a graduated neutral density filter handy. Use the filter to properly expose both the dimmer stars above and the brighter lights below.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-BGkhP9xTHLE\/UCzaUMQsMMI\/AAAAAAAAJaA\/AfWrT-N37Ws\/s1600\/images.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" \/>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">If you don\u2019t want to drop money on a filter, try looking into the black card technique:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Basically, black card photography uses a black card (could be anything that is dark with a characteristic of not refecting lights) to shelter the brighter area of an image allowing the darker area a longer exposure and the result is a balanced exposure. Compare to gradient graduated ND filter application and HDRI, black card photography can handle a greater dynamic range of luminance and it can be done without computer software post-editing which usually disqualifies a great photo from a photo contest.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Take your black card, and cover up the bottom portion of this shot for a short period of time so that it doesn\u2019t get blown out while you\u2019re trying to properly expose the stars.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne, Australia-based wedding photographer Lakshal Perera shot this stunning wedding photograph a few days ago showing the newlywed couple in the foreground and the Milky Way floating in the night sky. The scene was extremely&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}