I don't have talent behind the lens but am grateful for this photo. I took 657 tonight throughtout the night with extreme exposure that kept stressing my battery. The outcome was one photo worthy of the memory of this year's Perseids shower. It was short of spectacular. I spent the night alone in the desert, just north of the lake in some dark spot off the road.
My shutter speed was the most complex of factors to be considered. You want a long enough exposure so that you capture a good number of meteor streaks, yet not so long that the stars themselves start to streak. But, now you see the quandary. Even with a 25 second exposure using a 24mm lens, how many meteor trails do you think you can capture? Not many, unless we really have a "storm". So, is the solution to simply take longer exposures and live with the star streaks? Yes, I did it.
Morning
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