Reader Photo: A moonless night in Yosemite
Back in November, Kevin Alvarez and his friends took a trip to Yosemite, where a moonless night provided the perfect conditions for stargazing and star photography.
“It really [was] magical,” Alvarez said. “And you can see the Milky Way perfectly during certain parts of the night.”
He decided he wanted to capture a photo of a stretch of the galaxy. While adjusting his equipment, a car passed by. That gave him an idea.
“I climbed this huge boulder to get a higher look of the road and get the Milky Way in” the frame.
He waited for a car to pass by. “And BAM, the picture was made.”
Alvarez used a Nikon d3200 and Rokinon 14 mm lens, with a 25-second shutter speed.
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