Damn. And I thought your previous shot of the ill-fated Donna Kay was pretty good. Now, the best I can say to that is, 'bah and harrumph on that other one.' This one is better. Much better indeed.

All harrumphing aside, it appears that some of your shooting and processing processes and mine are very, very similar. Multi-shot, multi-row, not exactly HDR'ed, but shot maybe using different camera settings (be it ISO or shutter speed) or maybe using different post-processes, then stitched and blended together in one or another of various ways to arrive at a pre-conceived result. And done such that its doing is neither obvious or nor visually apparent.

I want to say I think you got it "right in the camera" but that wouldn't begin to come close. Instead, it might be best to say, 'you got it "right" in the mind.' Kudos. Maxima kudos.

This is the last of the images of the Donna Kay under the Milky Way. This image is an 16 shot pano using a Nikon d850 in the vertical (portrait) position. The lens was the 24-70, f2.8 used at 24mm The first 8 shots moving from left to right were shot a 1000 ISO and only the foreground portion of the frame was used. The second set of 8 shots was taken at 4000 ISO and only the sky portion of the frames were used in the final image. I merged each set of 8 shots using Lightroom the exported both merged images to Photoshop where they were layered and combined. The completed image was then returned to Lightroom for final editing. According to Photoshop the image is 38 inches wide. I thought my computer would hemorrhage trying to process this as I had to wait frequently for it to catch up. For your information--the two bright lights on the right are the lights from two shrimp boats working in the Gulf of Mexico. The boat, the Donna Kay was washed ashore in 2018 and rests on Cape San Blas in the Florida Keys.
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