In yesterday’s post, I showed an early morning shot of the 1st century B.C. ruins atop Mt. Nemrut in Turkey. Lisa Chorny, one of my followers, was curious about the pre-dawn shot in which I did light painting, so here it is. There were about 8 megalithic heads lined up in a row on this side of the mountain, and this picture shows two of them plus the huge bodies from where these heads fell in various earthquakes over the centuries. This is a 20 second exposure, and in that time I used a flashlight to illuminate the foreground with sidelighting and the background with front light. The sky was clear and we had stars, but we didn’t see the Milky Way so I added that for drama (I photographed this sky in Patagonia). I took several test shots to determine the exposure, and my other settings were manual exposure mode, f/8, and 640 ISO. On another side of the mountain, many more huge heads were scattered about, and that afforded us additional photographic material.
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