Beginner in Milky Way

robinsslee · 2 Dec 2014

I do like general landscape work but I do not have the chance to do milky way so this will be my very first try on them. I have seen a lot of superb images and if I could get some expert advise will be much appreciated. I'll try to add more in due course.

Some data below and C&C welcome...

Shot on tripod, lens is facing about 70deg to the sky, remote release and manual lighting to the pines. PP in CS6 to bring out more of the milky way...

Canon 5D3
Samyang 14mm
f/2.8
35s exposure

lightshipman · 2 Dec 2014

If it was my shot I would be well pleased, really nice

Robert Hofstra · 2 Dec 2014

Super shot! I dont see this in Rotterdam,but a few weeks ago i was in North Denmark at the coast.
Had this sky almost every evening.Only....... No wide angle or tripod with me

jus_tin · 2 Dec 2014

Excellent shot, did you know the milky way was going to be there? Im just about to start my venture into night/astro photography (normally do macro so quite the opposite scale wise)... but with the colder nights creeping in and the clearer skies im going to have a crack at this!!

Jao · 2 Dec 2014

Very impressive indeed, I'd be proud to have taken that!

robinsslee · 2 Dec 2014

lightshipman said:
If it was my shot I would be well pleased, really nice

Cheers Andrew

Robert Hofstra said:
Super shot! I dont see this in Rotterdam,but a few weeks ago i was in North Denmark at the coast.
Had this sky almost every evening.Only....... No wide angle or tripod with me

Cheers Robert, I understand the frustration when you did not have the right lens for the moment, happen to quite a number of times....

jus_tin said:
Excellent shot, did you know the milky way was going to be there? Im just about to start my venture into night/astro photography (normally do macro so quite the opposite scale wise)... but with the colder nights creeping in and the clearer skies im going to have a crack at this!!

Cheers Justin, yes you can see the milky way with naked eye its just the quality of dark sky and also the artificial light that might affect its visibility.

Jao said:
Very impressive indeed, I'd be proud to have taken that!

Cheers Adrian..

keety · 3 Dec 2014

35s is too long an exposure (your stars are starting to stretch) you want 20-25 max at 14mm

GreenNinja67 · 3 Dec 2014

Not if he's using f2f gear (which he is). 500 rule says he's dead on. If using the 600 rule he can go to 42 seconds.

GreenNinja67 · 3 Dec 2014

Fx gear that was meant to say.

robinsslee · 3 Dec 2014

Hi Keety, I am using full frame camera and I have used the rule 500 to get my exposures.

I did used 7D2 to do nightscapes and that I am using 21s exposure.

Terence, thanks for clarifying

robinsslee · 8 Dec 2014

Just managed to process another night landscape with the bonus of northern lights from the first image.

These were my first night trying out the night landscape photography. Composition is not as good but given the space constraint this is the best I could achieve using the Samyang 14mm f/2.8

jbw · 8 Dec 2014

Both shots are good but for me the first one is the better image. I think some of the stars in your image are in fact camera noise - not many but nevertheless some noise is present. You might be fit from two things-
1) try a dark frame subtraction
2) try stacking shorter exposure lower ISO images ( increases signal to noise ratio) and then blend in the foreground afterwards
Anyhow - a great set of images on your part and I enjoyed looking at them.
Hope this helps
James

robinsslee · 10 Dec 2014

Hi James, cannot disagree with the noise department I know that many astrophotography involves stacking images, black frames and dark flat frames...

Thanks for the feedback much appreciated

jbw said:
Both shots are good but for me the first one is the better image. I think some of the stars in your image are in fact camera noise - not many but nevertheless some noise is present. You might be fit from two things-
1) try a dark frame subtraction
2) try stacking shorter exposure lower ISO images ( increases signal to noise ratio) and then blend in the foreground afterwards
Anyhow - a great set of images on your part and I enjoyed looking at them.
Hope this helps
James

Nick_1981 · 21 Dec 2014

Im hoping to give it a go in the New Year and I would be chuffed if these were my first attempt

RJL2005 · 28 Dec 2014

Like the surreal feel to the first one. Very nice.

Happysnapper79 · 29 Dec 2014

Great shot.

Dan Tomlinson · 29 Dec 2014

Wow very nice well done

robinsslee · 2 Jan 2015

Nick_1981 said:
Im hoping to give it a go in the New Year and I would be chuffed if these were my first attempt

Good luck Nick, just find some nice dark places... have a torch or something on hand it might be useful to include some foreground interest

RJL2005 said:
Like the surreal feel to the first one. Very nice.

Cheers Rhod, I might be looking forward to do more astro work, but only if time allows

Happysnapper79 said:
Great shot.

Cheers John

Dan Tomlinson said:
Wow very nice well done

Cheers Dan

Regards,
Robin

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