I have been spending more time on the beach than in the pines lately but I did do this project I thought you guys would enjoy. It got featured on this photographers blog so I will just repost the description from there.
"I was sitting on my back deck eating dinner and watching the fireflies dancing across my yard. Having done many images of star trails and using stacking software, I got the idea I could stack many images together and create an impression of the whole field as it is filled with these glowing streaks. I ran out in the field and set up the tripod with an angle so the setting sun was giving just enough light to provide a silhouette of a cherry tree and still have a dark background of the forest to show the light of the fireflies.
I used an intervalometer to fire the exposures on a Nikon D90 @ 18mm. 422 – 3 sec exp, f3.5, iso 500, stacked with Starmax, masked out stacked sky (star trails & planes) and then stacked again over one exposure to create a clear sky."
Photo on Flickr
"I was sitting on my back deck eating dinner and watching the fireflies dancing across my yard. Having done many images of star trails and using stacking software, I got the idea I could stack many images together and create an impression of the whole field as it is filled with these glowing streaks. I ran out in the field and set up the tripod with an angle so the setting sun was giving just enough light to provide a silhouette of a cherry tree and still have a dark background of the forest to show the light of the fireflies.
I used an intervalometer to fire the exposures on a Nikon D90 @ 18mm. 422 – 3 sec exp, f3.5, iso 500, stacked with Starmax, masked out stacked sky (star trails & planes) and then stacked again over one exposure to create a clear sky."
Photo on Flickr
