Tenerife milky way nightscape #1

This milky way shot was made in the Teide National Park (Parque nacional del Teide) near Mirador San José.

 

It's a stack made out of 8 single exposures to reduce the noise.

 

 

Planning:

 

For planning my excursion I've used the PhotoPills App.

 

 

Gear:

 

- FUJIFILM X-T1

- FUJINON XF 14mm F2.8 R

- Tripod

- Remote control

 

 

Shot:

 

- 8x single exposures

- f/4

- ISO 6400

- 14mm

- 30s

- RAW

- Using the built in intervalometer

 

 

Postprocess:

 

1) Lightroom

- Import to Lightroom

- Correct vignetting

- Export as 16 Bit TIFF (ProPhoto RGB)

 

2) Affinity Photo

- Import as Live Stack to AF (use the non perspective option).

- Used the median filter to stack images

- Align all sky layers **

- Add again all layers stack the foreground, and align it with the sky layer

- Applied some global an local filters to the sky layer (sharpening, contrast, tone curve, exposure, ...)

- Export as Tiff (RGB )

 

3)

- Restore original EXIF data (exif tool)

- Import to LR

- Again some global and local adjustments

 

 

** More about stacking

Since the auto alignment failed, I needed to fallback to manual alignment of the single exposures.

 

For that I used a workflow that Ian Norman described here www.lonelyspeck.com/milky-way-exposure-stacking-with-manu... and adapted it for Affinity Photo.

Done