A couple of weeks off, a new year and a new 52 weeks project! The theme for the first week is "Our Home". I started out by taking took some architectural style shots of the house at both sunset and sunrise but they appeared somewhat ordinary so continued trying to find something a little different.
Wandered outside at after dark and looked up and saw a much clearer night sky than usual. It was a moonless night with no cloud and the stars were out in force. Camera was mounted on a tripod pointing skyward and using a wide angle lens at 10mm. That's our home on the left to go with the theme. It was a lot darker than it appears so I used a 3200 ISO setting, a f3.5 aperture and a 20 second exposure, I was mostly trying to avoid star trails at this speed. A major problem was a lack of light to allow the lens to auto-focus so had to switch the lens to manual at infinity. I also took some shots of just the stars but I liked the composition on this one more.
A larger version of the image can be seen on Flickr here.
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