What a Blast!

Last Sunday, 1st September, was my fourth and final night staying in the coastal country town of Bodalla, here in Australia. I visited this photo location to shoot a star-trails composition featuring the dead tree and had set up my camera, tripod and foreground lamp, ready to shoot the sequence of images.

After checking my focus and lighting, I pressed the shutter button for a final test image. In the 15 seconds that the shutter was open, a fireball appeared in a burst of orange light that turned to green as it brightened, then faded to orange once more as it vaporised.  

I let out a rather loud "Yes!" as the fireball lit up the countryside, and another one when I saw the image on my camera's Live View screen. What a wonderful end to four nights of cloudless skies!

Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera set on manual mode.
- Exposure time 15 seconds @ ISO 6400.
Rokinon 24 mm f/1.4 lens set to f/2.8
Foreground lighting via 1x Lume Cube II LED lamp

Edited in Adobe Lightroom Classic. Increased Exposure and Shadow levels, added Dehaze tool/filter.
Denoised and sharpened in Topaz Photo AI.