Another view to 100 billion stars in our Galaxy , this time against
man made objects.
It looks intimidating to say the least, our home planet is nothing but
a grain of sand in the Universe...
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The foreground consists of 5 shots through the 12-24mm at 12mm, 1
stop apart, starting at 2sec f/11 ISO200, plus one at f/22 to create
the diffraction spikes on those lamps.
There was another white street lamp behind me, plus ambient light from
other lamps behind the house, so the contrast was extreme.
The Galaxy is a panorama made with the 50mm f/1.8 shot wide open, 8 sets of 5 photos at ISO3200, 8sec each, stacked for noise reduction and then stitched. At the exposures required for capturing the Milky Way, the foreground was obviously over exposed.
There was another additional series of 4 bracketed shots at 18mm, to get a seamless stitch of the moving stars against the stationary objects on the ground.
Consider this an extreme HDR, made of shots 11-stops apart...
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As for the falling star, after about 50 shots needed for this one,
capturing one in a frame was inevitable...
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blasaure 32 months ago | reply
Incredible.
jroadie1 32 months ago | reply
Inspiring.
Armando MGT 32 months ago | reply
what an incredibly good job !!!
thanks for sharing your techniques
Boris SV 32 months ago | reply
I did not know such magic shots could be taken.. wow
gardien.des.étoiles 31 months ago | reply
Stunning!!!
Gislaadt Art (I am back NOW) 27 months ago | reply
Fabulous !!
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AWESOME ! love it !!!
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@Alebi 22 months ago | reply
Top fave!
How awsome and inspiring
Mr Gold 22 months ago | reply
So Awesome! Superb work!
smokejumping 17 months ago | reply
Amazing shot, thank you very much for explaining the exposures and the postproduction.
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Fantastiki!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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PK - Design 16 months ago | reply
Very good! I like this image but can't imagine to catch the milky way in such a colorful beauty. You did very well with this one!
color blind 56 16 months ago | reply
First class photoshop work, Well done!!!!!
BlueisCoool 14 months ago | reply
Very nice capture - congrats!
Jeremy Sorrells 11 months ago | reply
[speechless]
Luca Libralato 11 months ago | reply
This picture is awesome... I really admire you, taking so complex photos and explaining the world how to do that.
Thank you very much, I'll try to do something similar.
Steve Wilson - over 2 million views thank you 10 months ago | reply
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