{"id":706,"date":"2018-09-04T23:12:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T06:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/?p=706"},"modified":"2019-02-24T12:26:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T20:26:20","slug":"joshua-tree-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/joshua-tree-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Tree 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC06687-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC06687-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"707\" class=\"wp-image-707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC06687-web.jpg 1600w, 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href=\"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC07043-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1330\" height=\"1995\" src=\"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC07043-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"716\" class=\"wp-image-716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC07043-web.jpg 1330w, https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC07043-web-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC07043-web-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC07043-web-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC07044-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1425\" height=\"1995\" src=\"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC07044-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"717\" class=\"wp-image-717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC07044-web.jpg 1425w, https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC07044-web-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC07044-web-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/DSC07044-web-731x1024.jpg 731w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>A week after visiting the Grand Canyon, another group of friends and I hung out at Joshua Tree for the first time to go see the Perseids Meteor Shower. It wasn&#8217;t something like out of the movies where you see a couple every second. Rather, we would see one with the naked eye 15-45 minutes apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photography wise, I think I made a lot of mistakes. Having never really shot the Milky Way before aside from the bit I saw at the Sony Kando Trip, I don&#8217;t have a lot of experience shooting or editing these kinds of photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this trip, I took my Sony a6000 and rented a 16-35 G Master. We set up and hung out at the center of the Jumbo Rocks campgrounds around site 92 until 12:30 am. There were a lot of other people around driving, having camp fires, shining flash lights around, <em>etc<\/em>. I think the mistakes I made were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Being in a place with a lot of other people.\n<ul>\n<li>People were driving around and shining flashlights, so I couldn&#8217;t control the exposure of the rock formations we were near.<\/li>\n<li>I think the campfires and things were affecting my white balance from shot to shot, even though I wasn&#8217;t using auto white balance. I&#8217;d shoot 50 shots in a row and some would be noticeably different in color between adjacent shots.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>Underexposing my pictures by shooting lower ISOs than I should&#8217;ve.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To edit the Milky Way pictures, I was kind of following <a href=\"https:\/\/improvephotography.com\/39977\/ultimate-guide-editing-milky-way-photo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this guide<\/a>. I still need a lot of practice. My colors end up different shot to shot. I also tried to stack photos together in some images to make the meteors go across the space (and remove planes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to trying again in the future. That said, I don&#8217;t have a ton of confidence in these pictures. So I&#8217;ll just share them here so I can compare in the future to see if I improve. &#x1f642;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.S. A lot of CA was still on fire the days leading up to when we went to Joshua Tree. I&#8217;m still not sure if someone&#8217;s trying to get me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perseids Meteor Pics from Joshua Tree<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-photography","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.lavaveshkul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}