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This is a self-portrait composite. This image is a focus stack consisting of 6 images for the landscape and sky, with the far focus distance for the sky and mountains being blended in during focus stacking. The 7th image is of the person reaching through the frame for the guitar. The location for this shoot was at Black Rock Desert, NV during a TMCC photography course field trip back in April 2015. Thanks, Pedro for firing the shutter! Thanks to Dean Burton, and the faculty at TMCC for taking the photography classes on this field trip, this image would not exist otherwise. © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY http://www.mikeclasenphotography.com
Stars poke out through an early February twilight sky with Venus being visible between prehistoric tufa formations. Captured February 2015… © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY www.mikeclasenphotography.com
This is a focus stack of eleven images. My camera was roughly 1.5 feet from the ground and around 7 inches from the tufa in the upper left corner of the frame. Initially this was going to be an exposure blend, with a 90 second exposure for the sky blended in with the stacked landscape, but the clouds looked much better in first fast exposure in the stack, so I just went with that. © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY http://www.mikeclasenphotography.com
