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Jul 26, 2017 21:55 as a reply to  @ post 18411306 |  #3766

holy crap dude. are these single shots? any reading material you can point me to?




  
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Jul 26, 2017 23:17 |  #3767

hobinsohn wrote in post #18412192 (external link)
holy crap dude. are these single shots? any reading material you can point me to?

No they are not single shots. Exposure for sky using tracker and exposure for the foreground without tracker and a lot of photoshop work. Correct me if I am wrong Eric.

Simply amazing images but by no means straight outa camera.


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Jul 27, 2017 05:59 |  #3768

hobinsohn wrote in post #18412192 (external link)
holy crap dude. are these single shots? any reading material you can point me to?

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No they are not single shots. Exposure for sky using tracker and exposure for the foreground without tracker and a lot of photoshop work. Correct me if I am wrong Eric.

Simply amazing images but by no means straight outa camera.

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No they are not single shots. Exposure for sky using tracker and exposure for the foreground without tracker and a lot of photoshop work. Correct me if I am wrong Eric.

Simply amazing images but by no means straight outa camera.

Click through to FLickr, it has all the details on how they were done there in the description.


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Jul 27, 2017 06:01 |  #3769

Probably my favorite MW image to date, partially due to the planning that went into it, and the time it took to finally be able to hit the shutter button to take the image.

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Two images, one for the sky at 20 Seconds, ISO 3200 f/2.8, and one for the foreground at 2 minutes, ISO 1600 F/2.8.

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Jul 27, 2017 19:56 |  #3770

FEChariot wrote in post #18412232 (external link)
No they are not single shots. Exposure for sky using tracker and exposure for the foreground without tracker and a lot of photoshop work. Correct me if I am wrong Eric.

Simply amazing images but by no means straight outa camera.

This is correct, I set up the tracking mount/tripod and take my sky exposures with the mount on, then turn the mount off and take the foreground exposures. I blend the two later on in post processing, trees are a real PITA in the tracked sky shots, it's hard to mask the blurry trees behind the corresponding sharp trees in the foreground.


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Jul 27, 2017 21:32 as a reply to  @ pdxbenedetti's post |  #3771

just looking at your flickr makes me want to spend some money on tracking mount... lol great shots! thanks for sharing! and that tracking mount setup is crazy!




  
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Jul 28, 2017 04:20 |  #3772

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Probably my favorite MW image to date, partially due to the planning that went into it, and the time it took to finally be able to hit the shutter button to take the image.
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Two images, one for the sky at 20 Seconds, ISO 3200 f/2.8, and one for the foreground at 2 minutes, ISO 1600 F/2.8.

Superb travis!


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Jul 28, 2017 06:42 |  #3773

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This is correct, I set up the tracking mount/tripod and take my sky exposures with the mount on, then turn the mount off and take the foreground exposures. I blend the two later on in post processing, trees are a real PITA in the tracked sky shots, it's hard to mask the blurry trees behind the corresponding sharp trees in the foreground.

Could you not use content aware fill on the background?

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Jul 28, 2017 09:35 |  #3774

pdxbenedetti wrote in post #18412878 (external link)
This is correct, I set up the tracking mount/tripod and take my sky exposures with the mount on, then turn the mount off and take the foreground exposures. I blend the two later on in post processing, trees are a real PITA in the tracked sky shots, it's hard to mask the blurry trees behind the corresponding sharp trees in the foreground.

masking the trees was the real PITA on the Sparks Lane shot I did...my first edit was easier, since I just used one MW image, I have since been trying to stack the MW pictures to get better NR, but the movement is making the edit a real pain, with not a lot of gain.

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Superb travis!


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Jul 28, 2017 14:33 |  #3775

One more from Portugal.

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Jul 28, 2017 19:08 |  #3776

tuffty wrote in post #18413147 (external link)
Could you not use content aware fill on the background?

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I haven't had much success with the content aware fill, more often than not it fills in the blurred trees with sky that doesn't match well with the local background sky and just looks funny when the sky is mask/blended with the sharp foreground shot. I've had more lucky with slightly scaling the sky once the blurry trees are aligned with the sharp trees, then warping a little more, then clone stamping out the remaining blurry edges that are visible. It's an insanely tedious process no matter what.


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Jul 28, 2017 19:47 |  #3777

pdxbenedetti wrote in post #18413686 (external link)
It's an insanely tedious process no matter what.

It could be worse, you could suck at photoshop as much as I do.


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Jul 28, 2017 23:58 |  #3778

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It could be worse, you could suck at photoshop as much as I do.


Looks like you are not alone by the "Likes" you have gotten...

Me included....


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Jul 29, 2017 12:49 |  #3779

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Jul 29, 2017 13:06 |  #3780

Wasn't really setup for astro on my vacation to the beach, but we had a break in the clouds as they kept rolling in and it was spectacular to the naked eye so I had to rush to get this one. I think it turned out pretty decent given the ambient light of the houses and pier lights. Single 30sec shot.

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