Bolivian Salt Flats.

Sep 28, 2020 2:06 AM

With just a bit of water, the Salt Flats in Bolivia transform into a magical natural mirror.

Who’s the source @OP?

5 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 2

That is gorgeous

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's absolutely stunning

5 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

I read bolivian salt farts. Quite disappointed

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thats gonna leave a lotta rust

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sparkly!

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Christ, can you imagine the humidity?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I've spent plenty of time on those salt flats in Ghost Recon Wildlands... it never looked *that* good!

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Uyuni!

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Where are all the UFO spaceships NASA doesn’t want us to know about?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Inside the trailer: v

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I absolutly love that country. Beautiful, and the people are so lovely.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Good bye axles and frame.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Bolivia? Ah that one country in Ghost Recon Wildlands! /sarcasm

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Airstream should use that for marketing.....

5 years ago | Likes 61 Dislikes 0

Yeah, except salt corrodes Airstreams really quickly. Will have to wash that thing down thoroughly when they get home! (Beautiful picture)

5 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 2

Wash it down as soon as possible. Airstream needs to put a protective clear coating on their trailers.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

*A little bit of water, and a little bit of photoshop.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What sort of aperture exposure saturation is this?

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I’m gonna say aperture is almost irrelevant, as long as you get low iso and at least 20 seconds exposure. Source: I also do stuff like that

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Timelapse. Look at the bottom and you'll see smearing from where the camera was rotating the wrong direction to track the reflected stars.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*Long exposure

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Just don't take a bag of Bolivian Salt through the airport. You'll be another story on Locked Up Abroad.

5 years ago | Likes 159 Dislikes 0

Guys, its salt, it can look like drugs

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Forbidden salt...

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Illegally removing shit from their country I would imagine is the reason? Just like in Hawaii or whatever you can't remove black sand?

5 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

On Hawaii, the story als has a deadly curse at least. Most other places it's a draconic response to a slippery slope argument.

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Can I ask why is that something special salt or something?

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I guess the ecosystem is special and they want to prevent it's destruction. Dunno how one gets a caravan in there.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Are there really places where the sky looks like this or os it just camera effects and photoshop?

5 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Photoshop and long exposure. I bet in real life is pretty too though.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

nowhere in the world looks like this without time lapse

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Time lapse is series of "regular still photos" shown as animation. This is long exposure photography.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Timelapse photography. The Milky Way is not that bright, even if you're in space where there's no air to diffuse the light.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Time lapse is an animation technique. This is long exposure photography.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The sky doesn't look like that anywhere without serious photoshopping

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Definitely enhanced in Adobe Lightroom. You expose the sky for about 30 seconds in RAW, then in Lightroom add clarity, contrast, detail. 1/2

5 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Also, in the reflections on the griund there are fewer stars and they are more blurry, which suggests the image being stitched from two.

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Thank you

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Look at the reflection, that's how the sky actually looked. Notice how stars become smeared.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

It's an artifact of the long exposure but you can see it's not as filled with tiny stars. Milky way very clear though.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You're partly on the right track. The "smear" comes from the camera not being rotated to match earth's rotation. The photo is a combination>

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I didn't mean the stars were smeared IRL, just that it was an accurate representation of what human eye would see in amount of stars

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's a really condescending comment for someone who didn't read the second part of the comment.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

>of two long exposure photos from the same location. Sky was shot with camera rotation, the caravan was shot static. >

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I'd love to see a sky like that some day

5 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 0

Doesn’t exist. If it did you could read a book at night without extra light source. Look how clear that trailer is.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Wait for a clear night, with no moon. Drive as far from city lights as you can. Take lsd. Lay on a blanket. Your eyes will adjust.

5 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

This guy has no idea what he's talking abou...... Nevermind

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Doesn't exist. Tons of post-production here... Pretty though.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

You can't see a sky like that with the naked eye. The Milky Way isn't that bright. This was a timelapse photo.

5 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

While i agree, I've been a couple hundred miles offshore with no major cities around and once you eyes adjust its pretty incredible.

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

And a bunch of photo editing. Would be cool to see the making of this picture.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

In fact, the sky is straight up photoshopped in. You can see star trails from long exposure in the reflection, but not in the sky.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

As keenharlequin said, the camera was rotating slowly to track the sky, and the smudged reflections on the ground are an artifact of that.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

To take a sky pic like that, you have to have a tracking camera, which would in turn smudge the stationary objects on the ground.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Can also tell it isn't tracked because of the streak from the satellite/plane. It would be majorly skewered if it was tracked.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nah, You can get similar with 30 second exposure at this wide of an angel. You wouldn't notice the star streaking unless you pixel peaked.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0