Night nominee

I always try to find "other planet views" for my nightphotos: a foreground that can have a "not of this world look" that can match with an incredible sky. Aiming exactly for that, I had the idea for this new project: Moon landing. I wanted to represent an astronaut, landed on a new planet, under a sky full of stars. To do so I needed 3 things: a costume, a desolate, rocky landscape and a great sky. For the costume, I just bought an Halloween helmet and a white suit, that I painted to resemble an astronaut one. For the foreground, I wanted something unusual: very rocky and very pale as the moon surface (Obviously I went in Dolomites). The final image is a panorama of 4, each one a blend of several. The two for the sky are a staking of 5 at 13” each. The four section of the ground are a merge of: 1 long-expo of 2 minutes, 9 shots for the lightpaining, and a shot for the astronaut.

I'm Stefano Pellegrini. I'm an Italian Designer, so the art and creativity were already in my job. But, I like to perform it also in my passion - photography. I like travelling and discovering new places, but always with the objective to take pictures.⁠
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My aim is to translate what the eyes see and often the camera can't. Using long-expo and combining different exposures, only to reproduce reality in all its art, without fictions and replacement.⁠
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I love Astrophotography, my favorite and best pictures are the one made by-night trying to obtain the best both from the foreground both from the sky. I like both cityscapes and play with cars, light-trails, both Landscapes especially mountains and Dolomites.⁠