Lluvia de Estrellas

Success!

Or something similar. Two day ago I went again to Laguna Torre to photograph the sunrise. I managed to get some awesome pictures of the mountains, get my foot in a freezing river AND get some pretty nice bird pictures while coming back. Not bad!

I am still working on them, so in the meantime here are some pictures from the last time. This ones where captured while camping in Campamento Agostini, 1 km away from Laguna Torre. I woke up in the middle of the night to get some pictures of the mountains and the stars but with out moon (new moon) they where pretty dark.

This one turned out nice. Its a 4 minutes exposure (single shot) of Cerro Torre. In case you are wondering why the tip is slightly orange, that is because of the light from El Chalten, some 10 km away!

Lluvia de Estrellas

Laguna Torre, El Chalen, Patagonia Argentina

This one is from sunrise. Everybody always shoots from the Lake, but I wanted to get some showing the river that is born from the lake (Rio Fitz Roy).

I shoot a panorama of two horizontal images and two exposures each too balance the dark foreground with the mountains. Finally I blended the two resulting panoramas in photoshop using several layers. I would have like some clouds near the mountains but I was not lucky enough. Still, I like the result.

Rio Fitz Roy

Rio Fitz Roy, El Chalten, Patagonia Argentina

In a few days, I will be uploading several new pictures from the same place, but a different day.

See you around!
Santiago