My new favorite spot for star photography
Apr 1, 2018 01:06:09 #
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
Beautiful shots. So, the road is open from the north? Repairs done after the mudslides?
Many thanks,
Yes road open from the north buth still closed 20 miles south of mcway falls
Apr 1, 2018 01:07:49 #
pesfls wrote:
Nice job. Like them both but do prefer the first.
Thank you, yes the first image is the one I went for. The second I posted as example of astronomical twilight.
Apr 1, 2018 01:24:43 #
Say Cheese wrote:
Amazing, love it. Now tell us how many shots did you take to get these?
Very kind!
Ok first I like to stack sky images in starry landscape stacker to reduce noise and I also like to take a long exposure of foreground to reduce noise, this has to be done in order to print large and still look great.
So I took my foreground first at about 3 am with a sliver of moon left to give a little light.
And left camera on tripod.
Then at 520am I took six images of sky to stack, here is where everything went wrong, the milk was way out of frame so I turned on live view for the accurate level and panned upward and took six more until I had the sky covered.
Normally I would use my phone to track it but there was no service.
So it was a stack panorama and honestly a total experiment, but it worked and I learned a bunch.
So to answer your question 31 for a tiff file of over 400 mb. I was always curious if I could stack and panorama together and have not found any literature on that, so I was forced to to try it. The entire drive home l was sure I blew it, I figured the stitching of the pano would surely clip the foreground rendering the image useless.
Phew
Nikon d810a
Zeiss 35mm f 2 distagon
Foreground
5 minutes
F 3.5
ISO 800
Sky
5 shot pano
6 image stack
8 seconds
F3.5
ISO 10000
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Apr 1, 2018 01:39:06 #
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Apr 1, 2018 01:41:26 #
PaulBrit wrote:
Not only did I find both photos just stunning, especially the first, but I also was very inspired by your commitment to taking them. Staring up at the stars on a clear, moonless night puts so much of our earthly lives into their proper perspective! Thank you for sharing them!
Your are so right on so many the levels the beauty was the experience of the night, the icing was the image. Thank you!
Apr 1, 2018 02:35:23 #
Sylvias wrote:
The downloads are stunning so many stars. 
That's very kind thank you, yes I was blessed with a clear night.
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Apr 1, 2018 05:25:38 #
Apr 1, 2018 05:28:40 #
karno wrote:
Mcway Falls in Big Sur is an amazing and challenging spot for shooting the milkyway, but so worth it, I plan on going back again soon.
At 520 am before Milkyway was in range for my composition left only a few minutes before astronomical twilight.
Thank you for looking.
At 520 am before Milkyway was in range for my composition left only a few minutes before astronomical twilight.
Thank you for looking.
Excellent set of images Karno.
Apr 1, 2018 06:07:03 #
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Apr 1, 2018 07:01:11 #
tcthome
Loc: NJ
karno wrote:
Very kind! br Ok first I like to stack sky images ... (show quote)
Wow , killer pics & thanks for all the info. I'm guessing landscape stacker is a program?
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