PHOTO OF THE WEEK

This week for Photo of the Week, we would like to show to our readers a highly-detailed shot of the Milky Way taken by Mark Payton, a talented portrait, landscape and wedding photographer. Taking a closer look, you might wonder what makes this photo so appealing? Could it be the surreptitious use of colour? Or maybe the uncountable number of stars? Or perhaps the lack of any distortion? To create this image, Payton utilized a 24mm Tilt-Shift lens with an RRS gimbal head to capture the starry night of Missoula, Montana without any wide-angle lens distortion. Afterwards, 4 separate horizontal images were stacked to create this lovely exposure with its vivid pigments and twinkling stars.

For more fantastic photos, be sure to check out Payton's website at http://www.markpaytonphotography.com/ or his Instagram @mark.payton.photography at https://www.instagram.com/mark.payton.photography/