Field Notes
With fog forecast for later in the evening I headed out hoping to capture the stars before it rolled in. I found this viewpoint with a low angle looking up and liked how it sat the Towers proud on the hill and kept the background free save for the starlit sky above. The technical problems I had were handling the very bright beam of light that illuminates the Towers by night. A series of bracketed exposures for these highlights and the stars gave me a range of exposures that I could work with to remove the burnt out, overexposed patch which the camera could not handle in the same way my eyes could. It took some time with a variety of techniques including Luminosity Masking (discussed in more detail in my Video series) but I think it was worth it. Canon EOS 5D MKIII, 16-35mm lens at 20mm, f4, ISO 1600 and various shutter speeds.