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Starry Night
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First successful attempt at capturing a portion of the milky way. It was a cloudy night and had to deal with some moving light-polluted clouds top right and ground based lights bottom left.
This was taken with the Samyang 14mm I have on loan on my D600. I use deepskystacker to process 6 image frames and a bunch of dark and bias frames.Still leaves me in doubt as to what wide angle lens to purchase. This Samyang came out of left field in my deliberations between new Nikkor 18-35 and Tokina 16-28
-petew
Turned out well, though I do think starry shots need something else in the frame
to ground the image, I was out last night myself but only in my back garden and
nothing much to ground an image there either! :lol:Would be interested to hear your settings and work flow in getting to this result,
I used a 35mm lens at f2, tried a number of different shutter speeds and ISO but
found ISO 3200 and 20s shutter worked ok. I only did single shots and off the camera
they looked like daylight, so after reducing exposure, increasing highlights and a bit
of colour adjusting, they were ok ish!Nice shot there. It is just the mater of playing with setting and remembering which one work and the best one
I do agree with shutterbug than you need a bit of earth in the images unless you’re doing deep sky photography. Viewers can relate to your image more when they can identify it with a location.
Nice capture!
Thanks for this, I agree with the feedback there, but as in shutterbug’s case, this was from my back garden, and the steel shed doesn’t make for good foreground interest !
I used deepskystacker on the previously mentioned settings, then just messed around a bit in Lightroom, to get the above. DSS does a far better job of removing the noise, without losing details. But requires more patience and processing power / time.Need to go try this but out in a more interesting area than my back yard !
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