Jingemia cave Under the Milky way

exploreparks.dbca.wa.gov.au/site/jingemia-cave

This was a trial weekend with my brand new Night lens Samyang XP F2.4 14mm.

This was the main reason for the trip to light the cave area and have the milky way above. Easy you would think, we both had our lights so it was try each to see what would work and give us the result. This is 5 tries to light the cave area and get a pleasing result. As you can see we have very little to room to work in, the big rock to the right and the huge rock wall to the left. we had the two tripods almost tangled up so both camera where side by side. It was a case of one shoot the second shoot.



Then became the interesting task of lighting the rocks at our feet and the big rock to the right. It took the two of us to use bounce lighting on rocks to do this. you are looking at a good 45 min of trial and error just to get this shot. Was it worth it, you seeing the shot we had in our minds and all the work, you bet.

The biggest bug was the moon not ideal but it was there the whole night so it was blow it up or just go with it. This shot and others in the night show up the shower of meteors that was happening.

Nikon D810
ISO 6400
@ F3.5
Samyang XP F2.4 14mm
10 sec.