Maddog Murph
Reflecting Pool
The Milky way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. It's name is derived from it's appearance in the sky as a dim glowing band that arches across the night sky typically most prevalent when no moon is present, and in the northern hemisphere from Spring to Fall. Individual stars cannot typically be seen by the naked eye, but they are what makes up the band we see. Galileo first discovered this. Today, milky way photography has become a fairly common thing. Anyone with a DSLR these days can typically take a shot of the sky by using a tripod, and a long exposure to come up with stars.
The challenge of these types of shots is usually lighting, and star trails. There are methods of stacking that are used to get rid of star trails, or alternatively many use the rule of 400, which says that if you divide you focal length into 400, you approximately get how many seconds you can leave the shutter open without seeing star trails. In practice this is heavily dependent on how sensitive your camera is. One of the methods I used for this photograph is called exposure blending. In order to get light into the foreground, I left the shutter open for a bit longer, and shot the sky separately, then later in Photoshop I combine the two images. This allows me to get a fairly sharp foreground, without star trails.
Reflecting Pool
The Milky way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. It's name is derived from it's appearance in the sky as a dim glowing band that arches across the night sky typically most prevalent when no moon is present, and in the northern hemisphere from Spring to Fall. Individual stars cannot typically be seen by the naked eye, but they are what makes up the band we see. Galileo first discovered this. Today, milky way photography has become a fairly common thing. Anyone with a DSLR these days can typically take a shot of the sky by using a tripod, and a long exposure to come up with stars.
The challenge of these types of shots is usually lighting, and star trails. There are methods of stacking that are used to get rid of star trails, or alternatively many use the rule of 400, which says that if you divide you focal length into 400, you approximately get how many seconds you can leave the shutter open without seeing star trails. In practice this is heavily dependent on how sensitive your camera is. One of the methods I used for this photograph is called exposure blending. In order to get light into the foreground, I left the shutter open for a bit longer, and shot the sky separately, then later in Photoshop I combine the two images. This allows me to get a fairly sharp foreground, without star trails.