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Have you entered this year’s @nikonphotocontest? Tap the link in our bio to submit your work by 2/13 for the chance to win a Z 9 and other great prizes. We’ve got the details behind @danieljstein's prize-winning shot, “By The Bells.” Dan says that it’s one of his favorite images of all time. Here's the story: "A record snowpack year allowed for snow to linger around long enough where the summer alignment of the Milky Way atop the snow-capped peaks was able to be captured. I used my star tracker to capture the stars and turned the tracker off to shoot the foreground images in the exact same camera position otherwise both the reflection in the lake below as well as the foreground would have become blurry from the tracker. But I still wanted to get a nice clean and sharp foreground, so in order to reduce the noise due to everything being so dark, I shot a bunch of images all back to back and stacked them. I love this image, but I never thought it could win any awards, and a Nikon award for that matter. I honestly thought the email was fake when I received word that I had won. I won a Z 5 full frame mirrorless camera which I use for b-roll/reels."

📸: D850 and AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED

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