Milkyway Panorama

Here is a vertical panorama that I made last august.

 

It has been shot in Cévennes in France. I choose this location because of the granite rocks which are interesting foreground for my photos.

 

Initially the panorama was smaller but then I had the idea to combine it with another panorama of the Milky Way with the cygnus region that I had done with the same technique and the same equipment (Canon 6D + Sigma 50mm).

 

So I hesitated a long time to post the initial panorama (smaller but wider) or this one. Here the initial panorama. Which one do you prefer ? Please let me know :)

 

For Pano 1 (Sky + lower part of milkyway) each tilt is a stack of 6 pictures 30sec ISO-3200 f2.8. For the sky part there are 3 row of 3 tiles and one row with 2 tiles. For the foreground it's a row of 3 tiles that has been shot in the blue hour juste before the night with those settings : ISO-1250 | f5.6 | 1/5sec For

 

Pano 2 each tile is a stack of between 7 and 10 shots. There are 3 row of 3 tiles.

 

Here is a better representation :

 

X X X

X X X

X X X => Pano 2 : ISO-2000 | f1.8 | 45sec

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X X

X X X

X X X

X X X => Pano 1 : ISO-3200 | f2.8 | 30sec

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X X X => Foreground : ISO-1250 | f5.6 | 1/5sec

 

 

Equipment :

- Canon 6D Astrodon moddified

- Sigma Art 50mm

- Sywatcher Star Adventurer

 

Processing :

- For each panel (sky & foreground) stacked on Sequator

- Adjust each panel on Photoshop (curve and Camera raw filter)

- Assemble the panoramo on PTGui

- Final adjustments (crop and Camera raw filter) on Photoshop

Done