The Stars At Night Are Big and Bright
While up at Boy Scout Camp hanging out at night, I was fortunate enough to have basically no moon around for the perfect time to take photos. Without the city lights and pollution, the stars sure came out each and every night. This is what camping is all about!
EXIF:
Exposure Program: Manual
Exposure: 30 sec
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 10.5mm
ISO Speed: 3200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
1 NEF/RAW exposure
Comments and faves
_*nikki*_, MBesantPhoto, Scottwdw, sebmcr17, and 32 other people added this photo to their favorites.
_*nikki*_ (18 months ago | reply)
oh man this is spectacular! what a sight!
MBesantPhoto (18 months ago | reply)
Simply amazing. I love the Milky Way in this shot!!
a park life [deleted] (18 months ago | reply)
Beautiful. A fantastic capture of a fantastic sight.
Scottwdw (18 months ago | reply)
Taking notes of the exposure. I'll be in Big Sky country in about a month.
Larry White (Trying_to_Shine) (18 months ago | reply)
WOW!!!!!!!!
sebmcr17 (18 months ago | reply)
coool !
⌘ Delete Me [deleted] (18 months ago | reply)
Wow! This is absolutely amazing!
IronRodArt - Royce Bair (NightScapes on Thursdays) (18 months ago | reply)
This is soooooo cool.
Э. Мэргэн. (18 months ago | reply)
Brilliant.
Astronomyboy (18 months ago | reply)
Excellent exposure scott! If you are interested in doing more astrophotography, I recommend using:
deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html
Which is a free program that allows for a process called image stacking. This allows you to create images with much less noise, without the need for detail killing noise reduction.
You simply load however many RAW frames you want into the program, and it will stack (or average) the frames. Since the noise changes from frame to frame, and the signal doesn't change, you end up improving your SNR, or Signal to Noise Ratio.
The factor of improvement (over a single frame) is the square root of the number of frames you stack. So if you had stacked 25 of these frames you would have 5x less noise. I usually plug in about 50.
DeepSkyStacker creates a 32bit floating point TIFF as an output file. The file has incredible Dynamic range, and must be processed to reveal the details you want in your image.
Pixinsight LE is a freeware program that allows for the processing and exporting of these files:
pixinsight.com/
Here are some of my images, using these methods:
www.flickr.com/photos/franklinmarsh/472132506 7/
www.flickr.com/photos/franklinmarsh/469656673 1/
Regards,
Frankin
Dan Chui (18 months ago | reply)
A perfect starry night~ congrats!
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belindah (18 months ago | reply)
Wow, it is shots like these that remind us all of our commonality-all citizens of the one Universe!
Thank you for the info on the coupon...we took advantage of it.
ichie (18 months ago | reply)
wow amazing sky!!!
Martha★ (Pixel Lounge Studio) (18 months ago | reply)
Wonderful image =)
IronRodArt - Royce Bair (NightScapes on Thursdays) (18 months ago | reply)
Can't wait to see more of your new images, Scott!
BTW, I appreciate your comments on my "way-back" photo history series.
/\ltus (18 months ago | reply)
WOW! That right there is a very good reason to move out of the city and live someplace with access to views like that!
IronRodArt - Royce Bair (NightScapes on Thursdays) (18 months ago | reply)
Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate your comments.
Express Monorail (18 months ago | reply)
Phenomenal!
Ross Merritt Photography (16 months ago | reply)
Incredible :) lucky that there was no moon or light pollution. Really love shots like this.
Very nicely framed by the tree silhouettes.
PapaDaveLavell (14 months ago | reply)
Scott,
I'm an amateur songwriter and I'm building a slideshow to post to YouTube for a song of mine called, "CAMP". Your photo at www.flickr.com/photos/barl0w/4906988866/ is excellent. Can I use it in my slideshow? (I'll credit you for it- perhaps "courtesy of Scott Barlow@flickr")
-papadavelavell@yahoo.com
PapaDaveLavell (13 months ago | reply)
Scott,
Thanks again for permission to use your photograph. I've finished my project and it's posted to YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=05ktXBadXNA
-Papa Dave
David M Hogan - Now on Google+ too (8 months ago | reply)
Awesome shot!
54StorminWillyGJ54 (4 months ago | reply)
Beautiful