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Hi Guys,
My 'first' (hopefully not last!!) post in the forum. A couple of months ago, I had a run up to Holy Island in Northumberland with the intentions of capturing the Milky Way in all its glory.
Moon set was going to be around 3:30am, perfect time for the Milky Way's ash cloud to rise above the horizon. Prior to the moon setting, I captured 3 horizontal images which would make up the foreground interest, then once the moon had dipped below the horizon behind me, I set about capturing 5 portrait orientation images which would of course make the Milky Way. The downside to doing this is that around 4am, you start to see the glow from the rising sun on the horizon. The light pollution to the left is Berwick and to the right is Bamburgh.
Details: Bottom set, 3 x ISO 800 & f/2.8 20s. Top set, 5 & ISO500, f/2.8 for 28's. Shot with a D800e and 14-24 f/2.8.
I eventually got back home around 7:30am, then worked the rest of the day... I ended up going around 39hrs with no sleep that day!!! The final image was a complete pain to put together; D800e raw files are huge, and creating a full size pano from them really put my machine to work. The final image is over 60" native size and around the 2gb file size with a 10gb scratch size... eeeeeek!
My 'first' (hopefully not last!!) post in the forum. A couple of months ago, I had a run up to Holy Island in Northumberland with the intentions of capturing the Milky Way in all its glory.
Moon set was going to be around 3:30am, perfect time for the Milky Way's ash cloud to rise above the horizon. Prior to the moon setting, I captured 3 horizontal images which would make up the foreground interest, then once the moon had dipped below the horizon behind me, I set about capturing 5 portrait orientation images which would of course make the Milky Way. The downside to doing this is that around 4am, you start to see the glow from the rising sun on the horizon. The light pollution to the left is Berwick and to the right is Bamburgh.
Details: Bottom set, 3 x ISO 800 & f/2.8 20s. Top set, 5 & ISO500, f/2.8 for 28's. Shot with a D800e and 14-24 f/2.8.
I eventually got back home around 7:30am, then worked the rest of the day... I ended up going around 39hrs with no sleep that day!!! The final image was a complete pain to put together; D800e raw files are huge, and creating a full size pano from them really put my machine to work. The final image is over 60" native size and around the 2gb file size with a 10gb scratch size... eeeeeek!
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