Milkyway nightscapes

Amazing work in here! I hope to one day contribute to this thread.

nero_design wrote in post #18211366
[Camera] - EOS 6D + Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L II USM lens (2.5x image vertical panorama)
[Location] - The Skillion, Terrigal, NSW, Australia
[Notes] - Rising moon illuminated the clouds & gave some of the stars a glow. Sapphire-Blue achieved with Tungsten White Balance.


It's kind of sad ...but I returned to this spot to watch the sun set a few weeks ago - and a man took his life by jumping off the cliff in front of me while I was filming. It seems the height of the cliff (which is a couple of hundred feet high) has made it a popular lookout but it's also a popular suicide spot now. The local council tried to dynamite the cliff three times in recent years but were unsuccessful in destroying it. It's a popular location for picnics, whale-watching, fishing and scuba diving.

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Wow, that's a great shot!

Taken this past summer at Arches National Park, Moab, UT. My first real attempts at Milky Way photography.

jwhite65 wrote in post #18254296
Taken this past summer at Arches National Park, Moab, UT. My first real attempts at Milky Way photography.

Both great, really like the first

jwhite65 wrote in post #18254296
Taken this past summer at Arches National Park, Moab, UT. My first real attempts at Milky Way photography.

xpfloyd wrote in post #18254299
Both great, really like the first

xpfloyd wrote in post #18254299
Both great, really like the first

I agree totally! Both are great, but like the first one more.

xpfloyd wrote in post #18254299
Both great, really like the first

Inspeqtor wrote in post #18254304
I agree totally! Both are great, but like the first one more.

Thank you both!

virginie24jb wrote in post #17603445

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Les Diables Bleus by Virginie Bitterlin, on Flickr

WoW!!!!

Thanks !

I really like this. On most monitors you'll never notice the star trailing, at least I can't in the forum except maybe at the edges, which may be more your lens than the stars moving.

If anything I would say you could boost your ISO quite a bit, being that you're shooting on a 6D with that nice low-light sensor. If you were at ISO 800 you could do 6 exposures 4 or 5 seconds long and end up with virtually no star trailing. The bigger improvement could be to bump up to f/8 and ISO 800 in order to get the best sharpness of your lens and go to a handful of 15 second exposures.

All that said, I'd be quite happy getting the picture you have produced.

mwcurtis wrote in post #18276232
I really like this. On most monitors you'll never notice the star trailing, at least I can't in the forum except maybe at the edges, which may be more your lens than the stars moving.

If anything I would say you could boost your ISO quite a bit, being that you're shooting on a 6D with that nice low-light sensor. If you were at ISO 800 you could do 6 exposures 4 or 5 seconds long and end up with virtually no star trailing. The bigger improvement could be to bump up to f/8 and ISO 800 in order to get the best sharpness of your lens and go to a handful of 15 second exposures.

All that said, I'd be quite happy getting the picture you have produced.

Oops, that should be ISO 1600. I wasn't planning on stacking, but then I picked up Affinity for $40.

Thanks for the tips!

I like it, but the entire image is too pink, at least for my tastes. You have enough image there though to get all of the information in it, which is something I have not done yet. As far as I know you may have pink skies there! heheh Really danged good for your second attempt at this though.

Since you brought up Affinity, how do you like it, AND, how'd you get it for only $40.? They sell it for $49.00 here in the states, I don't know where you are though.

Randy