Linoma
Saunders County, Nebraska
This is the first Milky Way panorama I've tried. I've admired many on here on Flickr and decided it was time to try one. This is a composite of 4 sets of 8 night sky photos oriented horizontally to make the sky panorama along with 4 photos oriented horizontally for the foreground. Each set of 8 sky photos were composited in Photoshop to reduce noise. The resulting 4 photo composites were stitched in Lightroom. I honestly didn't think that they would stitch because I've had some previous failures with night sky photos stitching in Lightroom, but this time it had no problem at all. The foreground photos were shot looking west on the night of the full moon and the Milky Way photos were shot 2 weeks earlier on a night of no moon looking eastward at a different location. The overall composite was done in Photoshop. The camera body for all the photos was an Olympus OMD EM1.2. The lens for the sky photos was a Olympus 12mm f2 and the lens for the foreground photos was an Olympus 12-100mm f4.
The name "Linoma" comes from a combination of the names of the nearby cities of Lincoln and Omaha. If you zoom in on the name you'll notice that the "N" is outlined in Red. This mimics the symbol that the University of Nebraska - Lincoln uses for it's sports teams.
A few years ago there was severe flooding along the Platte River which destroyed nearly all of the nearby buildings at Linoma Beach but the Lighthouse survived. The roadway in the foreground was underwater for about a month.
"The base of the lighthouse was a gas station, built in 1938. The 110-foot-tall tower was added the following year. There are ten floors inside, and the builders may have wanted the lighthouse to become a novelty motel, but that never happened. The lighthouse worked as a real lighthouse for years, with a spiral staircase to the top and a bright neon beacon, but it gradually fell into disrepair and was abandoned. Nearing collapse, the lighthouse (and its surrounding RV park) were bought in 2010, and its restoration began in the summer of 2013. In 2003, Linoma Beach was listed in the National Registry of Historic Places, and the lighthouse was especially significant as a representation of early 20th Century roadside architecture." (RoadsideAmerica.com)
2023 Nebraska State Fair - 3rd Place - Panoramas
Linoma
Saunders County, Nebraska
This is the first Milky Way panorama I've tried. I've admired many on here on Flickr and decided it was time to try one. This is a composite of 4 sets of 8 night sky photos oriented horizontally to make the sky panorama along with 4 photos oriented horizontally for the foreground. Each set of 8 sky photos were composited in Photoshop to reduce noise. The resulting 4 photo composites were stitched in Lightroom. I honestly didn't think that they would stitch because I've had some previous failures with night sky photos stitching in Lightroom, but this time it had no problem at all. The foreground photos were shot looking west on the night of the full moon and the Milky Way photos were shot 2 weeks earlier on a night of no moon looking eastward at a different location. The overall composite was done in Photoshop. The camera body for all the photos was an Olympus OMD EM1.2. The lens for the sky photos was a Olympus 12mm f2 and the lens for the foreground photos was an Olympus 12-100mm f4.
The name "Linoma" comes from a combination of the names of the nearby cities of Lincoln and Omaha. If you zoom in on the name you'll notice that the "N" is outlined in Red. This mimics the symbol that the University of Nebraska - Lincoln uses for it's sports teams.
A few years ago there was severe flooding along the Platte River which destroyed nearly all of the nearby buildings at Linoma Beach but the Lighthouse survived. The roadway in the foreground was underwater for about a month.
"The base of the lighthouse was a gas station, built in 1938. The 110-foot-tall tower was added the following year. There are ten floors inside, and the builders may have wanted the lighthouse to become a novelty motel, but that never happened. The lighthouse worked as a real lighthouse for years, with a spiral staircase to the top and a bright neon beacon, but it gradually fell into disrepair and was abandoned. Nearing collapse, the lighthouse (and its surrounding RV park) were bought in 2010, and its restoration began in the summer of 2013. In 2003, Linoma Beach was listed in the National Registry of Historic Places, and the lighthouse was especially significant as a representation of early 20th Century roadside architecture." (RoadsideAmerica.com)
2023 Nebraska State Fair - 3rd Place - Panoramas