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Pigeon Point Lighthouse by moonlight
This was actually an unplanned shot. I had originally scouted out a location more face-on with the lighthouse with the Milky Way emerging from behind the lighthouse. But when I took a walk around the park, I suddenly noticed this wonderful scene with the lighthouse, the ocean, the cliff, and a peaceful cove. I took a series of exposures just as the moon came up from the mountains behind me. The result was quite magical, after the enormous task of blending together the two exposures and extracting as much data out of the sky as possible. Pacific- Ocean-facing skies are hard to beat!
Technical details:
* 30 exposures for the ground, HDR merged
* 7 exposures for the sky, and an additional 8 exposures for the sky with the lighthouse light visible to the camera. Sky shots were tracked with a Star Adventurer Mini star tracker.
Preprocessed in RawTherapee,
stacked in Sequator and GIMP,
and composited and finished in GIMP.
Pigeon Point Lighthouse by moonlight
This was actually an unplanned shot. I had originally scouted out a location more face-on with the lighthouse with the Milky Way emerging from behind the lighthouse. But when I took a walk around the park, I suddenly noticed this wonderful scene with the lighthouse, the ocean, the cliff, and a peaceful cove. I took a series of exposures just as the moon came up from the mountains behind me. The result was quite magical, after the enormous task of blending together the two exposures and extracting as much data out of the sky as possible. Pacific- Ocean-facing skies are hard to beat!
Technical details:
* 30 exposures for the ground, HDR merged
* 7 exposures for the sky, and an additional 8 exposures for the sky with the lighthouse light visible to the camera. Sky shots were tracked with a Star Adventurer Mini star tracker.
Preprocessed in RawTherapee,
stacked in Sequator and GIMP,
and composited and finished in GIMP.