Beautiful composite image of Perseid meteor showers using photos taken over 6 hours by Fred Bruenjes

Here is how he captured it…

I was blessed with decent weather and a good show of Perseids here in Ramona, California. I had my Canon 1D Mark II running with a 17-40mm F4L lens set at 17mm F4, ISO 3200, MWB 3500K, riding piggyback on an LX200. Below is a link to my composite of 28 x 30 second exposures, selected from 680 exposures taken over the course of about 6 hours. I stacked 9 exposures for the background, and then used painted masks in Photoshop to insert the 19 exposures that had meteors.