This Milky Way Photography post is by Nikhil Shahi website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube - see also his previous posts here. All attached photos shot with the Nikon D850 and the Nikon 14-24mm lens. Photographing the Milky Way in beautiful and dark Utah, had been on my mind for many years. I had made several trips to Southern Utah in the past to visit Zion National Park and the GSENM - however, I was either visiting during the fall or winter months, when the Milky Way was not visible or during a full moon, when it was washed out by the moonlight. Well, in June of this year, I finally got a chance to go on a road trip across Utah and seized upon the opportunity, to finally photograph the Milky Way. I decided to head to Kanab, Utah, as I wanted to photograph the Milky Way over Toadstool Hoodoos, which lie around 40 miles East of Kanab, on Highway 89. I had planned my 4 night stay in Kanab, to coincide with the new moon - doing so would ensure that I had dark skies to shoot the Milky Way. Since my style of photography doesn't involve using light painting to light up the foreground, I had to rely on natural light for my foreground exposures. I thus needed to take a dual exposure for each of my compositions - one for the foreground, taken at dusk and the other for the Milky Way, taken at night, when it would be at an...
Published By: Nikonrumors - Saturday, 11 July, 2020