My first reasonably successful Milky Way.

IPClark · August 24, 2016

There is a tonne of room for improvement from a shooting and processing perspective but for now, I'm happy enough with this one.

Stumblebum · August 24, 2016

Nice Ian....need to find more interesting foreground!

IPClark · August 24, 2016

Cheers SB. Agree on the foreground however I was limited where I was .

CCoop · August 24, 2016

Wow congratulations on a sweet shot! Can you share details on your technique? And tell about the light in the lower left-- city lights? And lower right-- fading sunset?

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roicead · August 24, 2016

very nicely done, esp. with all of the light on the horizon.

IPClark · August 24, 2016

Thanks guys, very much appreciated. The shot was a 60 second exposure at ISO 5000, F/3.5 and 10mm FL.

The light to the bottom left is the result of someone in an adjacent building switching on an outdoor light (I cropped a lot of it out). The light on the clouds to the right are likely to be sodium light pollution. I was in Devon in the UK which has some very dark areas however there are some towns off in the distance that give off some light. The clouds in the distance reflected that.

As for processing, I ran a few presets in lightroom to adjust contrasts, hues and saturation to bring out the elusive colours that are resident in the Milkyway. Then applied some NR and a touch of sharpening. Not much though.

David_S85 · August 25, 2016

Very nice for a 60 second shot and you got a minimum of star streaking. Usually 20-30 seconds would be max exposure time for stars and MW. The editing ended up looking great. I can only suggest working on your foreground landscape components to help make the compositions more interesting.

IPClark · August 25, 2016

Thanks David, I was somewhat limited with the foreground unfortunately but I'm hoping the next time I get to a dark skies area in the UK (not many of those unfortunately) I'll be able to scout a better location.

I have a 37 second shot here

Still a crap foreground though.

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=258989

My first reasonably successful Milky Way.

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