Bouldering and astrophotography go great together with sleeping under the stars and bonfires. I took these shots whilst out with some good friends around Sihla monastery, in the monastery lands of Eastern part of Romania.
The details for the top image are: Nikon D700, Nikkor 50 mm 1.8D, f/10, 750 sec, ISO 800. Yeah, 750 seconds long exposure. That was one of my first attempts at a star trail photo. I am hoping on doing more when I get the chance again.
I played a bit with my SB600 Speedlight flash whilst on this trip and you can see the results in a couple of the shots below. I use the Speedlight off the camera with the Commander function of the built in camera flash.
My mate Vali showing me his way around a bouldering problem. I did use the SB600 on this one.
The boulders around there are this really nice sandstone. It does require some cleaning at times and there were quite a lot of pesky mosquitoes around too.
The soft evening light falling gently on the moss growing on the side of one of the boulders out there.
Nikon D700, Nikkor 24-85mm 3.5-4.5G ED, f/8, 10 sec, 24 mm, ISO 200. +SB600
This was actually a test shot before I asked Vali to go up it slowly wearing my headlight.
Nikon D700, Nikkor 24-85mm 3.5-4.5G ED, f/8, 8 sec, 24 mm, ISO 560. +SB600
This is him climbing it with the headlight. I had the flash fire at the start of the route and 8 seconds later when he got to the top but the results are quite messy. It still was fun to do.
And then the night came... :D
Nikon D700, Nikkor 24-85mm 3.5-4.5G ED, f/3.5, 28 sec, 24 mm, ISO 6400.
Nikon D700, Nikkor 50 mm 1.8D, f/1.8, 1/5 sec, ISO 1600.
This is how our campsite looked like. It was next to a stream which we used for keeping the beers cool. We ended up having a bonfire and cooking some awesome beef on it later on when the flames died a bit.
Nikon D700, Nikkor 50 mm 1.8D, f/1.8, 16 sec, ISO 6400.
This one is of a part of the Milky Way that was well visible from our camp.