Milky Way over The Pinnacles Desert - 50mm Panorama
Nikon d5100
50mm Nikkor Lens
f1.8
84 x 6 seconds
ISO 5000
Stitched in MS ICE
This is one of my first full panoramas shot with a 50mm prime lens. It came out of the stitching software at over one gigapixel! After some cropping I managed to get it down to 740 megapixels, so it's by far my biggest panorama to date. I had to experiment with Photoshop's save levels to try and get the final size under Flickr's 200mb limit. To be honest I can't see much difference between the highest save level of 12 and the level I saved this at, which was 9. The file size difference is huge though, 560mb vs 190mb.
This was shot at one of my favourite locations for astrophotography, The Pinnacles Desert about 2 hours north of my home city, Perth in Western Australia. This image covers more than 200 degrees of the night sky with the left side at around SSE and the right side around NNE. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are prominent on the left side of the image just above the light pollution from Perth. The foregound was light painted using a hand held spotlight.
Milky Way over The Pinnacles Desert - 50mm Panorama
Nikon d5100
50mm Nikkor Lens
f1.8
84 x 6 seconds
ISO 5000
Stitched in MS ICE
This is one of my first full panoramas shot with a 50mm prime lens. It came out of the stitching software at over one gigapixel! After some cropping I managed to get it down to 740 megapixels, so it's by far my biggest panorama to date. I had to experiment with Photoshop's save levels to try and get the final size under Flickr's 200mb limit. To be honest I can't see much difference between the highest save level of 12 and the level I saved this at, which was 9. The file size difference is huge though, 560mb vs 190mb.
This was shot at one of my favourite locations for astrophotography, The Pinnacles Desert about 2 hours north of my home city, Perth in Western Australia. This image covers more than 200 degrees of the night sky with the left side at around SSE and the right side around NNE. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are prominent on the left side of the image just above the light pollution from Perth. The foregound was light painted using a hand held spotlight.