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Last evening we headed off to Ingleton armed with the D3 and D300S, plus my large adapted surveyors tripod.
My original concept was to capture the viaduct from near the road to the south of the viaduct but having set up and taken a few shots I decided the viaduct was far too insignificant in the images. Not wanting to have a prospective good cloudless night wasted we moved down to the viaduct and set up in a swamp. Very soggy conditions, with some quite deep pools of water all around.
After some tentative exposures I took to 2 sets of images. This is a quick process from the second set, with reduced exposure. We had a visitor who trudged through to scene with a very bright torch, then back again... Using the Lightroom removal tool I erased the worst intrusions and some airplane trails, then exported JPEGS which StarTraX software used to create the image below.
With the D3 and the 20mm Nikkor I was able to capture Polaris and the ground level scene. With DX the D300S can't get both, even with a slightly wider (and slower) 18mm lens.
Nikon D3, Nikkor 20mm f2.8D, 20 seconds @ f3.3, ISO1600 exposures at 40 second intervals.
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Robert.