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Here is on of my first attempts at astrophotgraphy. About 500 30 second exposures stacked, 200 iso,
from a 12mm f/2 lens. I had to remove many firefly trails, and you can see a shadowy deer in the righthand corner too.
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Awesome job for your first try!! In the upper right corner, and the lower left corner, there are some light trails (I presume they are from lightning bugs) that need to be removed. The horizon is also off a bit.
Did you use Lightroom to stack the photos?
Wow very very nice! This is really good. This is the kind of photo that really draws you in and makes you want to just keep looking at it. I really can’t critique much on this but kind of like @RyanMadaris said, the lightning bugs and the horizon were just a little bit off, but other then that very nice job. The coloring and composition is really great!
Thank you! @rmadaris, I used the Lighten blend mode in Photoshop to stack this picture. I assume that you meant Photoshop rather than Lightroom- I can’t stack images other than HDR to the best of my knowledge in Lightroom. I tried to turn off all the layers that had lightning bugs in them, but it was kind of like finding needles in a haystack with 500+ frames. The horizon is actually accurate, but it would look better straightened.
Good job, especially for a first try! 🙂 There are a couple of older threads here about astrophotography and stacking that you might be interested to read if you’re getting into astrophotography. It seems like there should be one or two more, but I can’t seem to locate them… 🙁
https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/the-milky-way-in-mexico/
https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/the-milky-way-from-africa/I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of Nature Friend Magazine, but they have an online presence where people can share their astrophotography shots as well, if you want some inspiration. 🙂
And here’s a step by step guide I wrote about it for members of The Click: https://www.lenspiration.com/bts-handiwork-god/ Sorry I didn’t get this link to you earlier!
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