Light Polluted Night Sky
This is something I've always wanted to do with a halfway decent camera and some software. Unfortunately, not near the city lights like I did here.
The image is a composite of 10 consecutive shots. A great freeware program called DeepSkyStacker was used to line up the stars, stack the images and filter out any anomalous sensor data from the camera.
The foreground portion with the farm field was masked-in using photoshop from a single image as the composite blurred this portion due to the earth's movement. You can still see the blur in the silhouette of the trees however. I thought this added a nice touch to the finished product though.
Next, I will try to do this away from city lights now that I understand the process a little better.
Canon EOS 60D, EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM, ISO 800, 22 sec (x10 composite), 15mm, f/3.5
Light Polluted Night Sky
This is something I've always wanted to do with a halfway decent camera and some software. Unfortunately, not near the city lights like I did here.
The image is a composite of 10 consecutive shots. A great freeware program called DeepSkyStacker was used to line up the stars, stack the images and filter out any anomalous sensor data from the camera.
The foreground portion with the farm field was masked-in using photoshop from a single image as the composite blurred this portion due to the earth's movement. You can still see the blur in the silhouette of the trees however. I thought this added a nice touch to the finished product though.
Next, I will try to do this away from city lights now that I understand the process a little better.
Canon EOS 60D, EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM, ISO 800, 22 sec (x10 composite), 15mm, f/3.5