Night landscapes of my weekend getaway

[Mar]

Small, quiet place with not much night life, on the plus side, it's nice to relax and wind blows often making it quite good for windsurfing, kitesurfing and sailing.

[JimUSNY]

these are really nice, like that 2nd one a lot with the milky way

[Phinehas]

Beautiful. I agree with Jim on the second one, really nice. What F-stop and shutter speed on that one? Thanks for sharing.

[wigpro]

I like them all, nice stuff for sure, number 2 and 3 are my favorites with the white lights shining in the sky and the red light on the lighthouse...and red lights on the water...

Good job...sharp as tacks...

Where is this magic place...

Jim

[DonR]

I love the sky in the second one. Just wish the swimmers latters were not on the pier.

[Mar]

I like them all, nice stuff for sure, number 2 and 3 are my favorites with the white lights shining in the sky and the red light on the lighthouse...and red lights on the water...

Good job...sharp as tacks...

Where is this magic place...

Jim

Hi Jim,
Thanks. The place is called Jadrija, it's a small resort next to my home town.
Around 100 years since first building started there, my grandfather made a weekend house there some 45-50 years ago, first row, 6-7 meters from the beach

[ShepherdLady]

Beautiful Marin!!

[xwingkiller]

that second shot is crazy!

[Rat44]

Those are some nice shots.
I always am impressed with good existing light shots.

[Don Baldwinson]

Beautiful night images Marin, so hard to do right, and you sure have done.
I like the drama of the 7mm shot, and the laserlight beams in the others.
Could you share some general settings?
Cheers,
Don

[Petephoto1]

Very very Nice Marian ! gives feeling and sets mood .cheers pete

[abnrmlbmw]

Mar, love it, will hopefully getting to same this weekend in northern Maine, USA. we have an old lobster boat on land with big open sky and no lights, have been trying to shoot this for some time but always raining when I am up there, maybe this weekend...

got any exposure data to share for a starting point? -Andy

[cosmonaut]

Yeah how about some settings? How did you capture that many stars?

[Mar]

Oops, didn't see the questions

Well, in shot #2 I used 14-35mm @14mm at f2 and ISO800.
Exposure time was set to 30s which is as long as I would go at 14mm to avoid more blurring of the stars.

The place where I shot it is pretty dark at night and there are no major light polluters around.

The most important thing is to be in a location free of major light pollution and to have clear sky with as little humidity as possible.

I imagine you can get much better shots somewhere up high in the mountains because air is finer and there's less light around not to mention it's colder and there's less air between you and the space.

I haven't tried stacking (which should also work well).

[abnrmlbmw]

HVALA!!!-Andy