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About the Photographer
Hannes Nitzsche is a full-time carpenter and part-time lifestyle, travel and landscape photographer born in Germany and currently based in southwest Western Australia. He specializes in panoramics, long exposures, and astrophotography. Check out his work on the sites below:
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
randomlightsphotography - Instagram: www.instagram.com/randomlightsphoto
- 500px: https://500px.com/
hannesnitzsche - TSU: https://www.tsu.co/Random_
Lights - Blog: https://random-lights.blogspot.
com.au/
Gear Used
Canon EOS 6D
Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM
Induro CT313 Carbon Fibre tripod
Induro BHM2 Ball Head
Novoflex Slim Panorama Head
Lowepro Video Fastpack 350 aw
About the Shoot
The images you see below were taken from The Nub in Assiniboine Provincial Park in the Canadian Rockies. After flying in by chopper, we put up our camp and immediately hiked the 5 km through grizzly territory up to the Nub where we sat down and waited. I set-up my tripod with my pano head and shot 7 images at the end of blue hour for the foreground, then another 7 images of the sky once the sunlight was completely gone, about 1 hour later (making sure I had enough overlap to combine the two rows later in post). I had to change my settings for the latter row of images to accommodate for the low light, so I chose my fastest aperture and increased the ISO to 3200.
Post Production
Once at home, I stitched the two panoramas separately, edited them separately and then merged them in Photoshop to my liking.
Final editing was done using Lightroom, Nik Color Efex & Nik DeFine
Final Image
About the “How to Shoot It” Series
This educational series highlights amazing images from our writers as well as our community. The goal is to not only feature inspirational work but to provide valuable education for our photography community. If you would like to submit your work or shoot to be considered, please click here.
