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On our way home I checked the weather forecast, it showed clear skies right through the night so I decided to visit the Ribblehead viaduct in the hope we might get some nice star trials. On our way up the hill to Ribblehead it started spitting a bit but that didn't deter me! The sky was reasonably clear but kept clouding over then clearing.
Having reached the viaduct about midnight and not having any other engagements we decided to wait and see if the skies cleared as predicted... They didn't, it absolutely bucketed down for most of the night! I awoke at dawn and the sun peeked from between the clouds. I grabbed a pic of the fells and the western side of the viaduct, then a train came over I took repeated shots as it ran across the viaduct, giving me material for a panorama. We then went to the eastern side in the hope the sun would give us a chance of a nice, dawn lit viaduct. It wasn't very strong but we did get a little sun.
D3, 24-120mm f4; 32mm, 1/160sec @ f5.6, ISO400
The panorama, made from six exposures, although I actually took about ten but the trains would have been overlaid, I should have timed them slightly further apart, or taken more shots and then selected the ones that I wanted.
This effort was inspired by Eric, who made a special calendar photo once with multiple lorries crossing a bridge, different method I suspect but similar result.
D3, 24-120mm f4; 120mm, 1/80sec @ f5.6, ISO400
This panorama was made in Photoshop using layers to overlay each exposure one per layer, aligned by hand then blended together. I did make one in Lightroom but it missed out most of the trains.
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Robert.