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Monday, August 16, 2010

Once in a lifetime shot!

Pete and I were heading up the coast to take meet up with some of the crew from Australian Photography and decided to leave a bit earlier ( 2:30am) and get some star trails over the shipwreck on Dickies beach.

We headed down onto the very spooky beach at around 4am and started setting up.  As it was pitch black, I took a test shot with the flash on at iso 1600 to make sure I had the wreck in frame.  I couldn't believe it when a meteor fell right in front of my eyes just after I had opened the shutter.  This shot couldn't have been set up better if I had tried!


And here is what we were there to shoot, far less impressive than the meteor shot,  Next time we will be taking a compass to find the Celestial pole.  Notice the shooting star half way down on the left





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2 comments:

  1. Sneddon PhotographyAugust 17, 2010 at 10:00 PM

    I only missed this by a minute....... hold on it was my idea.

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  2. Brad Anderson CreatesAugust 18, 2010 at 2:23 PM

    Great photo - Just amazing. This is a once in a lifetime snap for sure - If you can do it again, I will buy you an EOS 5D. I can't believe how centred in the frame the meteor is.

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