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First Day of Spring in Acadia
There are a number of ways to process a Milky Way photograph - this image has 2 sections -- the sky and the foreground. The sky is made up of 6 exposures of the Milky Way, each one is 15 seconds each, and you then take those 6 images and stack them in a piece of software called Sequator. Sequator removes much of the noise in the images. The second section is the foreground. Many people will take one or more photos on the foreground using really long exposures at low ISO so the foreground comes out clean and sharp. I chose to wait until the sun was rising so I could use the natural light to expose the foreground.
The glow you see on the middle left is just the sun creeping up - it was still about 45 minutes before sunrise so it was plenty dark still.
Finally, you take those 2 sections and bring them both into Photoshop where you can create a composite. Voila... you have a complete photo of the Milky Way.
First Day of Spring in Acadia
There are a number of ways to process a Milky Way photograph - this image has 2 sections -- the sky and the foreground. The sky is made up of 6 exposures of the Milky Way, each one is 15 seconds each, and you then take those 6 images and stack them in a piece of software called Sequator. Sequator removes much of the noise in the images. The second section is the foreground. Many people will take one or more photos on the foreground using really long exposures at low ISO so the foreground comes out clean and sharp. I chose to wait until the sun was rising so I could use the natural light to expose the foreground.
The glow you see on the middle left is just the sun creeping up - it was still about 45 minutes before sunrise so it was plenty dark still.
Finally, you take those 2 sections and bring them both into Photoshop where you can create a composite. Voila... you have a complete photo of the Milky Way.