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This shot is from mid-February during the very early part of the “superbloom” that is taking over many of the desert areas out west. Bluebonnets are a type of lupine. Compared to the lupines we have here in Maine and New Hampshire they are quite a bit smaller, but just as beautiful when they cover an otherwise barren desert. This was my first time seeing flowers in the desert, and it was quite a sight.
The Milky Way didn’t really get up above the hill here until just after astronomical twilight started before sunrise, so the sky is very blue from the scattered sunlight (like daytime) since it was not full darkness.
Nikon Z 6 with FTZ adapter and NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8 lens @ 14mm. Blend of 12 total images. The sky is from 10 exposures at ISO 3200 @ f/2.8 and 10 seconds each, star stacked with Starry Landscape (Mac only) for pinpoint stars and low noise. On Windows you can use Sequator for star stacking with landscapes. Photoshop can do it but it’s a manual pain in the butt and doesn’t always work. The foreground is from 2 exposures, both at f/11 and 30 seconds, but one was at ISO 800 and the other was at ISO 100. I pulled in focus to get the very close bluebonnets in focus in one of the shots. The scene was getting bright quickly as the sun was approaching the horizon, and in the 6 minutes that passed between the foreground shots that I ended up using (I was taking another foreground shot in between and checking out previous shots, etc) there was enough light that I could do ISO 100 at 30 seconds instead of 800 at 30 seconds. I kept the foreground exposures to 30 seconds to minimize any movement in the flowers from the wind, but I was lucky and it was just about dead calm, which was almost eerie in a very dark place in the middle of nowhere without any noise other than my own movements.
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NGC 2170 o también llamada Nebulosa Ángel, se encuentra situada en la constelación de Monoceros a 2,700 años luz de distancia.
Es una nebulosa de reflexión rodeada de corrientes de gas interestelar ionizado, causante del tono rojizo perceptible en la parte superior de la imagen, así como de nebulosas de absorción y estrellas calientes.
Para capturar esta imagen se utilizaron filtros LRGB y una exposición total de 1h 20min:
2x600 Luminance
2x600 Red
2x600 Green
2x600 Blue
Registrado y apilado con Siril, procesado no lineal con PS.
Las líneas verticales son rastros de satélites que no pude eliminar del todo.
Hace un poco más de un año que inicié en el mundo de la astrofotografía y el procesado de datos con Telescope Live, estoy muy, muy feliz. Le he perdido el miedo a los parámetros manuales de las cámaras fotográficas, aprendí a utilizar diferentes herramientas para procesado de astrofoto como DSS, Sequator, Siril, FITS Liberator, AutoStakkert, RegiStax, también los maravillosos PS y LR.
Aprendí a reconocer las condiciones meteorológicas adecuadas para lograr una buena astrofotografía, a ubicar las constelaciones en el cielo y diferenciar ciertas regiones. A tomar fotografías con un simple celular y reconocer algunos de los equipos más avanzados para este trabajo.
Y es que no solo se trata de saber ubicarse en el cielo y tener el mejor equipo para realizar una buena foto, también se debe entrenar la paciencia y la perseverancia.
Sin duda he obtenido muchas satisfacciones de esto, es la mejor distracción cuando “estoy mal”, he conocido gente genial y muy experta en este ámbito, algunos que me han dado consejos para mejorar en tomas y procesado y otras que se han convertido en buenos compañeros.
La astrofotografía me acerca cada vez más al cielo, que es lo que más, más me gusta en esta vida y lo que más quiero conocer. 🌌
Creek near Brenham, Texas star trail. Roughly 2 hours of 20 second exposures stacked using Sequator to form the trail. Photoshop used to stack 3 layers of foreground lighting
Approx. 22 minute star trail shot Monday night between 11:30 & Midnight (100 - 13 second shots). I had to edit out dozens of aeroplanes - probably all but a handful of the shots had multiple planes flying by. Beautiful evening! I took a similar shot 3 years ago in late August, different camera & lens. This shot is wider and shows more of the surroundings... also the star trail is about 10 minutes longer than the previous shot. The foreground is made of 45 images median stacked equaling about a 9 minute exposure.
- Nikon D850
- Tamron 15-30mm @ 15mm f 2.8
- Post done in Sequator, StarTrails.exe, Lightroom & Photoshop
Canon R8, Canon 50mm f1.8 @ f2.8, ISO 3200.
Tracked with Skywatcher Star Adventurer
3 panel panorama.
7 x 80s exposures per panel, stacked with Sequator, panorama combosed with Microsoft ICE and final image edited with PixinSight, Photoshop and Lightroom.
Location Kopparnäs, Inkoo, Finland.
Camera: Canon 6D
Lens: Tamron 150-600mm @ 273mm
Filter: ICE 82mm Light Pollution Reduction Filter
Tracker: iOptron SkyGuiderPro
Stacked: Sequator
Process: Camera Raw, Photoshop
Capture Time: 30 Minutes
About the location: This image is of an engine house for a Cornish pumping engine at Burrow Farm on Exmoor. It is the last remaining example of a 'Cornish' type engine house in Somerset. Burrow Farm Mine was one of a number of mines built in the Brendon Hills iron field, and first sunk about 1860. The engine house was probably built in 1880 and housed a rotary beam engine serving the dual purpose of pumping and winding. A short branch railway joined it to the West Somerset Mineral Railway. The engine house was only operational for a short time as the mine finally closed in 1883.
About the image: This is a blended image of separate photos taken of the foreground and sky using an astro modified Sony A7IV. The foreground photo was taken with a 24mm lens at f/4.0 ISO640 for 3'26". Two Z96 LED lights were used for illumination inside the engine house. 20 x 2' photos of the sky were taken with a 35mm lens at f/2.8 ISO800 mounted on an Ioptron Sky Guider Pro star tracker. The 20 sky photos were then stacked in Sequator to create a single image of the sky. The sky and foreground images were then blended in PS with final adjustments in LR and Topaz.
This was shot from Campobello Island, New Brunswick, looking back at the town of Lubec, Maine. The lighthouse in the foreground is Mulholland Point Light on Campobello. This was shot as the tide was going out, and the foreground is all seaweed.
I wasn’t sure if this shot would work, given all the lights from downtown Lubec, but it did! The lights weren’t enough to completely wash out the sky. It did require an extra darker shot for the town lights to blend those into the blown out lights of the star stacked image. The flares from the lighthouse and bridge lights are from the lens.
Nikon Z 7 with FTZ lens adapter and NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8 lens @ 14mm, f/2.8 for all shots.
Sky: Star stack of 20 exposures, each @ ISO 3200 and 8 seconds. Stacked with Starry Landscape Stacker for Mac, but you can do this with Sequator on Windows. The result is the best of both worlds — pinpoint stars and low noise.
I actually had to process the star stack twice. I wanted to preserve the lens flares going way up into the sky, but masking them out of the sky region in Starry Landscape Stacker meant that the stars around the flares disappeared. So I processed the stack one way like that to preserve the flares, and then processed it again but without masking out the flares which meant that the stars were preserved around the flares, but the flares were blurred and essentially disappeared due to the alignment of the sky. I then stacked both of those sky results in Photoshop and used the “Lighter Color” blending option to seamlessly blend them together, preserving both stars and flares for the final result.
Foreground: There was so much ambient light from the town lights that I was able to use the foreground from the star stacked result for some of the image, plus another exposure at ISO 400 for 2 minutes with the focus pulled in for better depth of field on the seaweed. I also used another shot at 10 seconds at ISO 400 for the town lights since they were blown out in the star stacked result at ISO 3200.
The resulting sky and all foreground shots were blended in Photoshop for low noise and depth of field.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery famously wrote "What's essential is invisible to the eye." I'd contend that with a camera lens, some luck, and someone you love around you... can sometimes catch at least a glimpse.
This was captured on the evening of July 11th from Blackrock Summit in #shenandoahnationalpark with my Canon 6D, 50mm budget lens and iOptron skyguider. My daughter and I camped out on the top of the rocky talus slope overnight and tried to take in the 360 degree views, shooting stars, satellites and even bats.
I'm so excited to finally get this shot that I've been envisioning for a while and look forward to getting a similar full family shot soon once Rylen is "outdoors-ready" 😆. I hope you enjoy!
Specs: Blended, stacked and merged.
Sky shot: 15x60 tracked shots, 50mm @F2.8 ISO800. Calibrated with 30 dark frames. No flats or bias. Stacked in sequator, processed in Startools, refined in lightroom, blended in Photoshop.
Foreground shot: 1x30" untracked 50mm @F2.8 ISO1600.
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“Algonquin Boardwalk” 🚶♂️✨💫
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Believe it or not this was my first night shooting at Algonquin Provincial Park. If you live in Ontario and have never been here on a clear moonless sky, you are definitely missing out on a treat !
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This is a stacked image of 8 frames captured on my Nikon D600 and 18-35 Nikkor lens. Settings were 18mm F3.5 30” ISO-6400.
Post-processed in Sequator, Lightroom, and Photoshop.
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What is that whitish strip that crosses the night sky? it turns out to be the galactic disk, the plane of the spiral galaxy that we inhabit: the Milky Way. In this capture made in the Cajon del Maipo we can appreciate brilliantly the nucleus of the Via Lactea, where Sagittarius A * is located, the supermassive black hole that dominates the island universe that we inhabit.
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¿Que es esa franja blanquecina que atraviesa el cielo nocturno? resulta ser el disco galactico, el plano de la galaxia espiral que habitamos: la Via Láctea. En esta captura realizada en el Cajon del Maipo podemos apreciar brillantemente el nucleo de la Via Lactea, donde se encuentra Sagitario A*, el agujero negro supermasivo que domina el universo isla que habitamos. La brillante estrella blanca que descansa sobre el disco de la Vía láctea es el gigante gaseoso Júpiter, la cual se encuentra en oposición, su mejor momento para observarse
Exif:
Sony A77
Lente 18-55mm
18mm, F3.5, iso 1600
40 x 60s.
Apilada con Sequator, Procesada con Adobe Lightroom y Photoshop
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) as seen over the Pacific Ocean near Santa Cruz, California. This is a wide field view. This image was created from 30 4-second exposures, stacked using Sequator, and finished in Affinity Photo 2 (because Sequator blurred the foreground quite a lot). It was also taken during a super moon which is why the sky was so blue - and there was obviously still some leftover sunset color low in the horizon.
The brightest object in the sky is Venus at the lower left.
My assessment is that it was relatively easy to find in astro binoculars, but not readily visible to my eye. In fact, the haze and the moonlight made it nigh impossible to find without a camera or binoculars.
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The Milky Way during astronomical twilight in northern Maine, with those lovely blue tones.
Nikon Z 6 with NIKKOR Z 14-24mm f/2.8 S lens @ 14mm and f/2.8 for all shots.
Sky: Star stack of 23 exposures each at 10 seconds, ISO 6400.
Foreground: Single 4 minute shot at ISO 1600.
The raw files for the sky were stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker (Mac only, use Sequator on Windows) for spot stars and low noise. I did some basic edits on the resulting file in Lightroom Classic before blending it with the foreground exposure in Photoshop. The foreground exposure raw file was prepared in Capture One to workaround a fatal flaw in Lightroom Classic — the inability to disable lens distortion correction profiles that are embedded in the raw files of many mirrorless cameras. This flaw forces the distortion correction on your raw files no matter what you do in Lightroom Classic. A recent update to Lightroom Classic allows disabling of these profiles in new mirrorless cameras, but not for the raw files of my Z 6 or Z 7. The distortion correction is, of course, ultimately a warping of the image. Since the raw files for the sky were processed in Starry Landscape Stacker, which ignores such embedded profiles, the resulting sky image does not have the warping applied. So in order to easily align the sky result with the foreground exposure you have to somehow get around this stupid problem with Lightroom Classic. You can covert the foreground raw file to DNG, strip the embedded profile, and re-import to Lightroom, or just use a different raw editor for the foreground that doesn’t force embedded profiles. I’ve been using Capture One for this purpose for two reasons — disabling of the embedded profiles, plus Capture One’s “Single Pixel” slider for removing hot pixels is the best tool for easily removing most hot pixels in any raw editor I’ve tried. This means I often skip in-camera long exposure noise reduction and just let Capture One do the hot pixel reduction for me, and then I clean up what’s left manually or using Dust & Scratches in Photoshop. Note that if I was using single shots for the sky I would use Long Exposure Noise Reduction in that case, as it will be easier to remove hot pixels with a dark frame to separate hot pixels from the stars.
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Star Trail - 255 13s 24mm f/3.5 ISO800 stacked using Sequator
Foreground - 6 10s 24mm f/8.0 ISO640 layed in Photoshop
Nikon d5500
50mm
ISO 4000
f/3.2
3 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Hoya Red Intensifier filter
Small 3 shot panorama of Orion setting towards the west. Taken at Boddington about 1.5 hours south east of Perth in Western Australia.
Orion (at the horizon), Pleiades, and Andromeda with some Perseid meteors. Composite image from about 30 minutes of shooting with an intervalometer. Peaked Mountain, Orland, Maine.
Base image is 8, 7-sec exposures stacked in Sequator with the meteors added back in Photoshop.
I saw it was going to be a clear night, so I took a ride to Phelps Lake since it was forecast to be cloudy for the next 2 weeks. I didn’t want to miss my chance for an April Milky Way. While my Z7 II was taking some tracked shots, I used my Z6 II to do a simple stacked shoot. 15 frames for the sky, and 15 light painted foreground frames (It is a long pier and I wanted to make sure I had what I needed. Stacked the sky in Sequator, blended the foreground in Photoshop. Combined the sky and foreground in Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon Z6 II
Lens: Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8 S
Sky:
15 x (20mm @ f/2.5, 13 sec, ISO 4000)
Foreground
15 x (20mm @ f/5.6, 10 sec, ISO 800)
Comet 2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) and Venus over Phillips Lake, Lucerne, Maine.
15, 3-second exposures processed in Lightroom, stacked in Sequator, and finished in Lightroom.
Milky Way rising over a pond in California. Stacked Milky Way with 40 x 15s and 10 dark frames. Stacked using Sequator, edited using Photoshop and star reduction with Starnet++
Shot of Milky Way from Aphrodite's Birthplace in Paphos Cyprus. The area is most known to locals as "Petra tou Romiou". The foreground is 2 minute exposure and sky is 22X180sec a total of 66 minutes exposure. ISO 400 F2.2. Stacked in Sequator, processed in Photoshop and Lightroom.
Taken in the Round Top, TX area on 15-Oct-24 around 8:35
Canon EOS-R w/EF 24-105mm f/4 lens, Processed in Sequator, Lightroom, and Photoshop
Comet and Sky
20 - 3.2 second, f/4, ISO2500 stacked in Sequator
Foreground Light Painting
5 - 10 second, f/5.6 ISO640 light from flashlight
Another from last Friday night in Mendocino county, here is the view looking southeast, with some aurora bands crossing the milky way. That is Miguel D, my photography partner, in the mid-ground, for scale, because space is big. Very big.
Lens is the DFA 25/4, just before it broke. This is a 7-frame blend using Sequator.
Hope you like it.
Jupiter, Saturn and the Milky Way over Phillips Lake, Dedham, Maine.
Similar composition to the one I posted last week, but this is my first attempt at exposure blending.
10, 2.5-sec exposures stacked in Sequator for the cabin lights and reflections. 10, 6-sec exposures stacked in Sequator for the sky and other parts of the lake. Blended in Photoshop and then finished in Topaz DeNoise AI and Lightroom.
Low budget version of a photo with the resources that a photographer has at home:
DSLR (Nikon D3300)
Lens (Tamron 70-300)
Tripod
In addition, Omegon Mini Track LX2 astronomical tracking
253 Lights with 10 seconds at ISO 3200 f/5.6
18 Darks
21 Bias
14 Flats
Taken from my terrace despite light pollution at Bortle class 4
Stacked with the tool Sequator
Post processing with Gimp and Lightroom
Used the tutorials from "Nebula Photos" on youtube
The Milky Way rising over Trona Pinnacles.
7 Shots stacked in Sequator for the sky and blended with one image taken at ISO 800 and 132 seconds for the foreground.
Pena Trevinca
Cielo - Panorámica de 6 Fotos (2 tomas por foto apiladas con sequator)
•Diafragma: F/2.8
•Tiempo de Exposición: 15
•Sensibilidad ISO: ISO 6400
Suelo - Panorámica de 8 Fotos (realizadas en la hora azul)
•Diafragma: F/8
•Tiempo de Exposición: 1 seg
•Sensibilidad ISO: ISO 100
Astro-modified Canon EOS 600D and Samyang 14mm f/2.8 lens on a Vixen Polarie star tracker. 13 x 2-minute exposures at f/4 and ISO 6400. Frames stacked in Sequator software (to preserve the mountainside foreground); curves and colour balance adjusted in Cyberlink PhotoDirector.
Note that the result is quite different to the previously-posted image of the Milky Way through the trees because of the modified camera (which picks up light from the reddish emission nebulae more efficiently); the longer exposures using a star tracker; the use of a deep sky filter to reduce light pollution (not that there was much at this location).
It is a pass of the International Space Station over Guadalajara, Spain. I also added a map showing the constellations and main objects.
The ISS can easily be seen from the countryside, even in the cities. In this case, I took a sequence of 15 seconds shoots capturing the ISS passing though Cepheus, Cassiopeia and Perseus constellations. The pass was relatively bright, reaching a magnitude of -3,6 at its maximum elevation of 66º.
Technical data below:
Date: 02-07-2022, de 02h07m a 02h10m U.T.
Place: Las Inviernas, Guadalajara
Ambient Temperature: +14ºC
Camera: Canon EOS7D, unmodified.
Optics: Tamron Di II 18-270 f/3.5, at 18mm and f/4.5
Filter: Kenko UV.
Mount: Photographic tripod, unguided.
Exposures: 12 pictures of 15 seconds each, 3 minutes in total, at ISO1600.
15 x 20s 15mm 2.8, untracked
Stacked in Sequator, levels/curves adjustment in Photoshop
Light pollution filter used.
on left of photo is Kanturk with its low tors, on the right you have Scarr, and over the ridge is Lough Dan. A crisp clear night, plenty of deer to be seen and a few grouse gobbling even at 4am.
Mon NGC2244 NGC2264
Fecha: 21-01-2023, de 19h50m a 21h21m U.T.
Lugar: Las Inviernas, Guadalajara
Temperatura ambiente: de -02.0ºC a -03.5ºC
Cámara: Canon EOS1300D modificada
Óptica: Zoom Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L USM a 100mm y f/5
Montura: Skywatcher EQ6 Pro Synscan v.3.25
Guiado: Automático con QHY-5 mono y PHD Guiding v.1.14.0, utilizando un telescopio refractor Orion 80mm de diámetro a f/5.
Filtro: Skylight UV.
Exposiciones:
18 imágenes de 300s cada una, a ISO1600
en total, 1h30min.
10 darks de 300s a ISO1600 y -04.5ºC
20 flats de 1/200s a ISO1600 y +13.5ºC
Software: Sequator v.1.6.0
PixInsight LE 1.0
Adobe Photoshop CC 2019
Astronomy Tools v.1.6
StarNet++ v.2.0
After spending 11 hours on the road driving back to Taos from DFW after seeing the eclipse, friends, and family, I almost didn't want to grab my camera for this alignment...but I love it when things align themselves so nicely. The next night I knew the moon would be way too high, so I captured this after getting the telescope and all the bags out of the car.
This is a stack of 5 images taken with 3.2-second exposure and a dark frame to help reduce the signal-to-noise ratio, stacked in Sequator for 16 seconds of integration time.
These are some beautiful old ruins about 8km SW of Strathalbyn, South Australia.
The closest I can get is 100 metres from the fence line.
This was the Milky way as at 20/2/2024.
I shot the house under 83.4% Waxing Gibbous moon. with a 50mm lens.
After the moon set at 02:17 hrs I took shots of the milky way from the same position and blended the scene together later.
7 sky shots each 13 seconds, f/2.8, 20mm, ISO 6400 and stacked in Sequator
A single foreground shot at f/4.0, 4 sec, ISO 2500, 50mm.
Erster Test Milchstraße fotografieren mit der "Kit Linse" Fujinon XF 18-55. Bearbeitung in C1 Fuji + Sequator+Gimp. 5 Bilder gestackt.
Aufgenommen ein kleines Stück hinter Wasserburg am Inn.
Verbesserungspotenzial ist vorhanden...
Nikon Z5 undefined converted - Kolari Vision UV/IR Cut Filter - Viltrox 16/1.8
Stars: Stack of 16 x 13 seconds, f1.8, ISO 800
Foreground: ½ second, f5.6, ISO 3200 during twilight
Post processing: Sequator, GraXpert, StarNet, Darktable, Gimp
I discovered at my favourite spot fog creeping in and so decided to stay a litte more to the opposite side. There I had at least one hour for shooting 2 series with different settings before also there it became uncomfortably wet..
Canon 5D MKII with Irix 15mm f 2.4, Rollei Astroklarfilter,Skytracker,10 shots 15 secs,ISO 2500,stacked with Sequator
A 2 side by side image pano shot from Migra ferha (Malta) with a Modified 1ds mk3 - Samyang 24mm F1.4 - Stack of 75 images with Sequator
It still amazes me how well the gimbals works on modern drones, allowing long exposures from the sky, and ever since I got the DJI Mini 3 I’ve been wondering if its bright f/1.7 aperture would be able to capture the Milky Way, even with the tiny sensor and limited 2 second max shutter speed. Plus the fact that the Mini 3 can shoot vertically is a really nice feature for when the Milky Way is vertical in the sky.
It took a few attempts to get everything right but it definitely works early in astronomical twilight and/or with the moon up so the sky is fairly bright so the tiny sensor can capture enough light, although the Milky Way won’t have much detail. If it’s too dark the 2 second exposure just isn’t capturing enough light, even with star stacking to improve the detail, but other drones with larger sensors and/or longer shutter speeds may be able to shoot with darker skies and thus capture more detail in the Milky Way. Even with the Mini 3 I’m pretty sure I could shoot slightly later in twilight and get more detail but that will have to wait until the next new moon cycle.
The foreground also needs to be bright to get any detail even with stacking, or use a shot from earlier in twilight if you have enough battery power to keep the drone in the same spot, or find the same spot again on a second battery.
DJI Mini 3 @ f/1.7, ISO 6400, 2 seconds for all shots. Sky: Exposure (star) stack of 20 shots stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker for low noise. Foreground: Exposure stack of 40 shots in Long Exposure Stacker for low noise. Long Exposure Stacker is a sibling of Starry Landscape Stacker, both made by Ralph Hill and available on macOS. On Windows you can use Sequator for the star stacking and Photoshop for the foreground stacking.
The same set of 40 exposures was used for the sky and foreground, processed separately. I tried stacking all 40 for the sky but just in that short amount of time the sky was too bright to get enough stars for the first 20 or so exposures, so I used only the last 20 to get a bit darker sky with more star detail.
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This was quite an experience. This lighthouse sits on an island at the end of a long skinny arm on Campobello Island in Canada, sticking right out into the Bay of Fundy, and thus there isnât much shelter from any winds whipping across the water. On this night the ambient temperature was about 18F, but the winds at this point were reminiscent of a mild hurricane, so the windchill was much colder. To keep warm I had tons of layers on, heated mittens, and electric hand warmers in my pockets. Itâs hard to operate the camera with a big mitten on, so my right hand was mostly out of the mitten and in a pocket with the hand warmer when I wasnât hitting buttons on the camera. The lighthouse has a red light, which caused the foreground to be bright red.
Nikon D850 with the NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8 lens @ 14mm, Really Right Stuff TVC-33 tripod with BH-55 ballhead, and Promote multi-function intervalometer.
The sky is a result of 20 exposures star stacked for sharp stars and low noise using Starry Landscape Stacker (Mac only, but you can do this with Sequator on Windows, or in Photoshop). Each sky exposure was 9 seconds long at ISO 6400 at f/4. Normally Iâd use f/2.8 for the most light possible, but there was so much ambient light from the lighthouse, and the sky was a bit bright from nearby light pollution, so I used f/4 for slightly sharper stars and a bit more depth of field and still had bright exposures.
Given how crazy the wind was I didnât attempt any very long multiple minute exposures for the foreground, since the tripod could have been knocked over at any time. I stood guard the whole time to block the wind as best I could and catch the tripod in case it started falling, but luckily that didnât happen. For the foreground I took four 30 second exposures and one 60 second exposure and stacked them for low noise. I used f/4, f/5.6, and f/8 for the shots so that I could get more in focus, I probably could have stuck with f/8 for them all but I was experimenting. The tripod was at eye level so I didnât really need to rack focus and focus stack, I just used higher f-stops for more depth of field. I stacked the exposures manually in Photoshop using a smart object with the median blending mode to reduce noise. Then I blended the stacked foreground result with the stacked sky result and applied final creative edits.
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