This was a fine example of “bronze hour” illumination, as some have aptly called it. The images were from the end of a sequence shot for a time-lapse using the TimeLapse+ View intervaolometer. This is a stack of 8 exposures, mean combined to smooth noise, for the ground, and a single exposure for the sky, all with the 24mm Sigma Art lens at f/5.6 and Nikon D750 at ISO 6400, each for 25 seconds. This is looking west, with the stars of the winter sky setting. The formations of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, lit by the rising gibbous Moon, off camera at left, on April 21/22, 2019. Then about 90 minutes after the arrival of darkness, the sky began to brighten again as the Moon rose to illuminate the eroded formations of the Park. The night started out as a dark moonless evening as twilight ended. I set up two cameras to frame different views of the hoodoos as they lit up with the light of the rising waning Moon. I did this on a fine night, Easter Sunday, at one of my favourite nightscape spots, Dinosaur Provincial Park. When doing nightscape photography it’s often best not to fight the Moon, but to embrace it and use it as your light source. It was a magical night as the rising Moon lit the Badlands with a golden glow.
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