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These 'Gums seem to be gathered around there lost kin after a lightning strike took him a few years back.
Offline for a few days this last week - this gum tree kept tickling my ear. This evening was so clear and still (and yeah a 'bit nippy) that I thought perhaps..?
Pentax K1 w Irix 21/1.4
Sky - ISO6400 f/2.5 x 24 frames
Foreground - ISO800 f/2.8 30s x two frames with LED lightsource front and mid.
Sky - raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 6 -> .dng
Stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker
Foreground - raw developed to .tiff
Stacked, masked and blended in ON1 PhotoRaw 2023
Colour graded in Color Efex Pro5
Tweaked in Topaz AI and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Grafton, NSW
From inside Colonnade Arch, two windows have views straight up. This one was inviting, for its outline suggested an eye.
The curious feature appearing against the sky is a ragged juniper.
This image is a composite: one frame for the sandstone, and 22 (each 8 sec, iso 6400, Rokinon 24 mm lens) for the starry sky. The frames for the sky were rotated by StarryLandscapeStacker to form a bright, focused image and then joined to the single sandstone image with a layer mask in Photoshop.
This is a composition blending two images taken at the same general area Writing On Stone Provincial Park. The Milky Way is a stack of 2 MW tracked images compiled in starrylandscapestacker and a single blue hour image of the hoodoo. Blended in Photoshop, my 2nd attempt at a sky replacement.
A bit of a conceptual piece, playing with time as a narrative. If you look at my previously published image alongside this one, you can see the galactic core of the Milky Way fairly clearly here. All told, this is an hourlong section of time under the spinning night skies.
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Very early morning Milky Way capture over Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. My first trip here; in 30 years of living in California.
This image is a combination of 20 shots photo stacked, and then combined with a longer exposure of the foreground. A bit of light pollution from the surrounding area, but the milky way was still so vivid!!
My one and only effort to capture the Comet Lemmon. We have had lots of cloudy weather up to today and will likely have cloudy weather returning tomorrow so tonight was my one chance. Tonight had some clear skies and just enough for me to grab this shot.
I shot with the 50mm prime, and intervalometer, with the following settings:
f2.8
ISO 1600
4s
I used StarryLandscapeStacker to stack 21 photos and then used Photomator to touch up the stacked shot and crop.
I will be honest: it took me a long time to find this comet and actually relied on a fellow enthusiast who gave me general directions to reassure me that I was shooting in the right area. Well over half of my shots were duds due to the clouds covering the comet.
This is a shot of the Milky Way along with a Man in the foreground as a pictorial representation of God's Creation (Genesis 1, 1–28). The man allows his mind to drift towards the past (up to seventy six thousand years ago) by gazing at the Milky Way.
The disk of the Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years in maximal diameter; Earth is located 25,800 light-yrs from the galactic core: It takes the light of the Milky Way's most remote stars 75,800 years to reach the stargazer's eyes; he now looks at the stars as they were in the past (so he looks into the past). There are four hundred billion (4 × 10¹¹) stars in the Milky Way.
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Canon EOS R5
Sigma 24mm F1.4 DG HSM | Art
ISO 3,200 – f/1.8 – 8 sec × 37 shots (stacked)
Southwest of Lubec on the Bold Coast of Maine. Mars on the left and Jupiter on the right with the Milky Way in the middle!
A windless night and clear skies provided ideal conditions for creating this image of the Milky Way laid out parallel to the horizon in the Jerrawangala National Park near Nowra, Australia. Seeing our galaxy laying level like this, over the Australian bush, with the still water of the pond underneath, reminds me of what a blessing it is to be able to stop working, take some time out and appreciate the beauty of Creation.
The bright, white starlike object at the top right is Jupiter, again dominating the heavens with its glory. Jupiter was one of the first delights I enjoyed when I bought a telescope over 40 years ago, and I still smile when I look at the night and see its beautiful beacon beaming forth, even in the light-polluted city where I live.
This image is known as a “stack”, created by taking multiple photos in a short period and combining them to remove digital noise to enhance the view. Each of the ten single-frame shots was taken with my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 lens @ f/2.8, using an exposure time of 10 seconds @ ISO 6400.
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Latest Astro image was features the Milky Way galactic core starting to set beyond Nohoval Cove which is located on the south coast of Ireland in County Cork.
This is a Stacked Image whereby I captured 8 individual exposures, each with the same settings (14mm | 20 seconds | ƒ/2.8 | ISO 8000) using a Canon 6D paired with the Samyang 14mm ƒ/2.8 lens.
These exposures were then processed within Adobe Lightroom before being stacked together for noise reduction purposes using Starry Landscape Stacker.
After setting up camp (note my 4Runner and tent) at the entrance to Black Dragon Canyon (lower right) I set an alarm for 11 PM and hoped the clouds would clear so that I could get a landscape shot that included the Milky Way. At 11 the clouds had cleared somewhat (they linger at the horizon and to the right) and the tiny sliver of moon was now below the horizon. I walked up the slrickrock to a good vantage point and took a shot of the landscape (ISO 8,000 and 200 s) and then 27 shots of the night sky (ISO 5,000 and 10 s). The 27 shots were rotated to produce a single, focused image of the sky with StarryLandscapeStacker and that was combined with the landscape image in Photoshop. This photo is lit solely by starlight.
The brightest point in the sky is Jupiter, at the right hand edge of the Milky Way. The second brightest point is Saturn, at the left hand edge of the Milky Way. The dark areas in the Milky Way are dust clouds.
Black Dragon Canyon cuts into the San Rafael Reef approximately 20 miles west of Green River, Utah, and it takes its name from a panel named for the Black Dragon Pictograph. The two lines below the slrickrock are the sandy stream bed from canyon and a dirt road that partially enters the canyon.
Red Mountain Numbers 1, 2, and 3 (left to right).
I was down in the hoodoos of San Juan County, New Mexico, walking around and sleeping in my truck. After the first hot day and night I decided to look for a cooler climate. That’s how I came to drive up to the San Juan mountains of Colorado.
A dozen miles north of Silverton, US 550 goes over Red Mountain Pass and begins a series of sharp hairpin curves as it winds down into the valley. There’s a little pull-off with a parking area and some signs containing information about the Idarado mine. You can almost get a good view of the Red Mountain range there, except for the trees that block the view. But near the parking area you can walk eastward about 20 yards down a little trail that takes you past the trees to a location right over the highway, across from the mine. The view from there is excellent. You can see the peaks, the mine trestle in the foreground, and in the distance the Yankee Girl mine buildings.
It was a good location for a time lapse session. The moon was just a sliver in the sky because it was only a couple of days after the new moon. The scene could have used a bit more light after sunset. But I decided to try it anyway. I set up the D800E with my Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 lens mounted and programmed the Ramper Pro to start at 1630 hours and take a shot every five seconds until 2100 hours. After than, the interval would feather up to a shot every 30 seconds until 0430 hours the next morning. ISO would start at 100 and gradually increase to 3200 as it got darker. Maximum exposure time was 25 seconds.
The sunset went pretty well, and the Milky Way rose in darkness over Red Number 3. At about 0030 hours, I had had enough and decided to end the session. (Because it was a public place I didn’t want to just climb in the truck and go to sleep with my gear sitting out there. Also I was worried that the wind might pick up and blow my camera and tripod down onto the highway below.) So I gathered up my stuff and got in the back of the truck and tried to sleep. The occasional traffic on the highway and headlights sweeping by made it difficult to relax and I didn’t get much sleep. At 0530 hours I got up and drove to Silverton, where I had an omelette at the Brown Bear Restaurant.
The image you see here is a composite from the time lapse sequence. The terrain part was taken about 40 minutes after sunset, while there was still enough light from the western sky and moon to allow some color. It also let me use a low ISO value (100) for minimum noise. For the sky portion, I used the final 12 images in the sequence. Each of these was a 25 second exposure at ISO 3200. This adds up to five minutes of total exposure. To minimize image noise, I ran the sequence of 12 images through StarryLandscapeStacker. This impressive software takes a set of images and rotates them so that the stars line up, eliminating the streaks that you would otherwise get. Then it finds the median luminance value for each pixel in the stack. This averaging effect can cause a dramatic reduction in overall noise. It really works well!
When I get it done, I’ll show the time lapse sequence here.
Immergiti in un viaggio notturno verso l'ignoto, dove il mistero celeste della Via Lattea svela la sua bellezza senza tempo.
In questa fotografia, catturata vicino Siliqua, la magia prende vita.
Una macchina solitaria trascende il tempo, sfiorando una casa abbandonata avvolta da un'atmosfera surreale.
Dalle sue finestre rotte, una luce rossa misteriosa sprigiona una forza enigmatica.
E sopra di tutto, un maestoso albero si erge, coraggioso, mentre la Via Lattea si dipinge come un tappeto di stelle scintillanti. Un incontro tra l'umano e il divino, tra il passato e il presente, che ci invita a svelare i segreti di una notte indimenticabile.
Preparati a lasciarti affascinare e ad immergerti nella poesia di questo momento unico.
Light pollution took away part of the core of the Milky Way in this location so I included more of the tower. 15 frames of the sky stacked with Starry Landscape Stacker.
25 light frames at 6400 ISO 15” stacked with StarryLandscapeStacker blended with a 6 minutes exposure at 400 ISO for the foreground.
The Maiden and the Way
Another from my recent night at Griffis Sculpture Park in Western NY.
Hardware: Olympus OM-D e-M1.2 with the m.Zuiko 8mm f1.8 Fisheye Pro lens. Composite of the foreground (ISO1600 | 40s | f1.8) lightpainted and 20 frames (ISO6400 | 8s | f1.8) - 15 light and 5 dark.
Software: Everything was initially processed in DxO PhotoLab 4. The 20 sky frames were sent to StarryLandscapeStacker for it's special magic. Then I blended the stacked composite with the foreground in On1 Photo RAW 2021.5
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Bit of experimental lightpainting in the early dawn at Glasshouse Rock, Narooma.
Pentax K1 w Irix 21/1.4
Sky ISO6400 f/4 x 12 frames (8s)
Foreground ISO800 f7.1 80s x 3 frames.
Totally omitted the moon blowing out - still I'm ok with that on this one, a bit rushed for time as I didn't have the place to myself so couldn't spend too much time chimping and recomposing - fingers crossed for next time.
Sky was raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 6 to .dng files and stacked in StarryLandscapeStacker to .tiff.
Foreground raw developed to .tiff files in DxO PhotoLab 6.
Stacked and blended in Affinity Photo 2, no colour grading on this one just a few tweaks in develop with Affinity on the inidividual layers on it's way to Topaz AI for a mild touch up then home to PhotoLab.
The two large basalt formations that reach skyward at Jones Beach, north of Kiama, Australia, are collectively called "Cathedral Rocks." I posted a photo of the smaller structure in July of this year, and I captured today's image of the larger "cathedral" under the rising Milky Way the same June night I shot the previously posted scene.
Light from the LED lamps I'd placed near the edge of the rock shelf that I stood on combined with the photons spilling from streetlights and homes in the suburb of Kiama Downs to illuminate the rocks, the distant headland and the water surrounding the rocky island.
The five single-frame photos I shot and then stacked to create this image were all captured with my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera and a Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 lens @ f/3.2, using an exposure time of 15 seconds @ ISO 6400.
The moon was about half full and was due to set in another hour or two as the milky way rose out of the east. I should have waited but was getting tired and had a big day ahead of me, so I took this a little before midnight and called it a night. I was spending the night at Sooner Rocks, 43 miles down hole-in-the-rock road southeast of Escalante, UT. This is a composite of four shots, median-weighted to reduce noise due to the high ISO (3200). Also used StarrySkyStacker to line the images up and reduce star streaks.
Blend of 10 exposures (done with Starry Landscape Stacker) and edited to match the original Lago Dosso image (one exposure; flic.kr/p/QW1qAP).
Chanced a visit to Warrilla Beach to catch the moonrise tonight....
Olympus OM-1 w M.Zuiko 7-14/2.8 Pro
ISO2500 f/8 11mm x 16 frames
Raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 8, stacked and aligned in Starry Landscape Stacker, finished off back in PhotoLab.
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The photograph WITH explanatory labels and arrows pointing to the planets.
The Milky Way lies vertical, much like a celestial ladder, with its core barely visible above horizon. Our galaxy’s core bids farewell to all of us in the north hemisphere, as it will remain invisible throughout the winter months ahead. There are four hundred billion (400,000,000,000 or 4×10¹¹) stars in it.
In the foreground, the deserted Hypapantē (Candlemas) abbey is seen. It is nested within the rock formation at a height of 230 ft (70 m) above ground. The monastery dates back to 1367 and was destroyed by fire in 1809 on the instructions of a notorious local Ottoman bully, based in Ioannina. It was restored in 2000.
Meteora is the name of the group comprising many impressive and lofty rock formations: The height of the sandstone megaliths ranges between 1,000-2,067 ft (300-630 m). The rock masses which were formed 60 million years ago are geologically unique and listed in UNESCO world heritage sites.
Made from 20 light frames captured with a Nikon D750 and Samyang 14mm f/2.8 lens. Stacked with StarryLandscapeStacker using median algorithm.
This is a test how well that stacking reduces noise. This image is taken at ISO 12800.
Summary: It worked amazingly good.
I went to the "Grand Canyon of the North" to try to bisect the bridge with the Milky Way. I'm pretty happy with the result. The two bright points to the left of the MW are Jupiter and Saturn (Mars had already dipped below the horizon by the time the MW came into position for my desired composition).
The Technical Details: Image made with my Olympus OM-D e-M1.2 and m.Zuiko 8mm f1.8 Pro lens mounted on my meFoto Globetrotter tripod. This is actually a process that stacked 21 layers. One for the foreground and 20 for the sky (15 bright images and 5 dark). The sky is stacked using Starry Landscape Stacker to bring out detail and virtually eliminate noise. Sky image details: ISO6400 | 10s | f1.8. The foreground involved light painting with my LEDLenser MT14 flashlight. This allowed me to bring the ISO down and I prolonged the exposure to get the water nice and milky. ISO400 | 40s | f1.8. Yes, even at 40s ISO400 is too low to get the right exposure, but I was using the Live Composite feature in my camera while light painting.
Post Processing: As mentioned above, the 20 sky shots were stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker. Beyond that, RAW processing and blending sky with the foreground all was done in On1 Photo RAW 20.2 and then converted to mono in Silver Efex Pro.
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Just me n the Tree's waiting for moonrise..
Pentax K1 w Irix 21/1.4
ISO 3200 f/2.8 8s = sky
ISO 800 f/8 60s foreground
Sky raw developed to .dng and stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker (Mac) to .tiff
Foreground single frame raw developed in DxO PhotoLab 6 to .tiff
Stacked and masked in ON1 PhotoRaw 2023
Colour graded in Color Efex Pro 5
Mild clean up in Topaz AI and finished off back in PhotoLab.
Grafton, NSW, Australia
6 (ii).
The photograph Without any distracting labels or arrows.
The Milky Way lies vertical, much like a celestial ladder, with its core barely visible above horizon. Our galaxy’s core bids farewell to all of us in the north hemisphere, as it will remain invisible throughout the winter months ahead. There are a hundred billion (100,000,000,000 or 10¹¹) stars in it.
A meteor (aka shooting star) was luckily captured whilst moving fast and burning out in the atmosphere.
In the foreground, the deserted Hypapantē (Candlemas) abbey is seen. It is nested within the rock formation at a height of 230 ft (70 m) above ground. The monastery dates back to 1367 and was destroyed by fire on 1809 on a local Ottoman bully’s instructions (based in Ioannina). It was restored in 2000.
Meteora is the name of the group comprising many impressive and lofty rock formations: The height of the sandstone megaliths ranges between 1,000-2,067 ft (300-630 m). The rock masses which were formed 60 million years ago are geologically unique and listed in UNESCO world heritage sites.
Sky:
2 row pano made of 4 frames @ f/2.
Each frame is a stack of 10x 8sec. shots.
Stacked with StarryLandscapeStacker and StarrySkyStacker.
Pano stitched with LR.
Foreground:
2x 120sec. @ f/4
Stacked with PS
Wind was the architect, working on a wall of petrified sand dunes on the rim of the Green River at Labyrinth Canyon. We chose Colonnade Arch as a site to capture the Milky Way, both for its intricate structure and its grand view.
Colonnade Arch has three windows opening toward the south and two windows opening straight up--it is also referred to as "Five Hole Arch." Technically, it is not an arch, but a buttressed alcove. For a view of Colonnade Arch during the day, see:
www.flickr.com/photos/jeff_mitton/41774791392/
Gary Clendening and left camp at 11 PM, arrived at 12:30 AM, and spent the entire night trying to get things done well. Gary lit the alcove with numerous tiny, dim lights. We left after photographing a bright sunrise.
This composite shot is composed of one shot of the windows and 15 shots of the starry sky, rotated and focused into a single image by StarryLandscapeStacker.