Most Milky Way images I see on here are taken with a wide angle lens. I took a different approach, and used a telephoto lens to get extreme details on our Galaxy and the foreground alike!
Currently, the Adirondack Mountain Club is encouraging prospective hikers to stay home and hike locally. Please abide by this principle as most likely the region is not as equipped for preventing/treating COVID-19 over where you are coming from.
If you like this shot, feel free to check meowt on my Instagram @danieljstein where I post more Milky Way Nightscapes like this!
Nope, the Milky Way does not look exactly like this with the naked eye. Humans cannot replicate the long exposures and telephoto focal lengths used here. With that said, the Milky Way is still an incredible site to behold in person. You cannot really compare what is seen here on a tiny computer/phone screen to actually being surrounded by a sky full of stars in real life.
This is a wider image I took last year in the Adirondacks which I tried to edit to represent how we see the night sky. Although it is not perfectly processed for how we see the night sky.
This image is a 2 image stack, consisting of 1 image with a star tracker for the Milky Way exposure and 1 untracked image for the foreground. All shots were taken consecutively one after the next. No crazy compositing or swapping the sky for a Milky Way facing a completely different direction here.
I used my h-alpha modified Nikon Z6 and Sigma 85mm f/1.4 ART lens to take this shot. I took 1 tracked shot for the stars at f/2.8, ISO 800, and 2 minutes. After the tracked shot finished, I took another shot to capture the detail on the landscape at f/1.4, ISO 6400, 5 seconds with the camera still on the tracker but not actually tracking as the moon rose for more ambient light. I did initial adjustments in LR on each image, then sent the foreground into PS and the stacked star layer into Pixinsight. From there, I performed adjustments to reduce the noise, color collaborate, reduce larger stars, as well as bring out more data in the Milky Way Core. After this, I brought the output file into PS where I stitched it together with the foreground untracked shot manually. I used masking to correct for a small discrepancy between the layers while performing additional adjustments to my liking to yield this final result.
It's unbelievable to think that we are on some small part of a small planet orbiting a small star that is just an almost negligible portion of this vast comsic body called the Milky Way, which in itself is a tiny part of a tiny part of a tiny part of all we can see, which might still be an infinitesimally small part of everything else!
DanielJStein on April 26th, 2020 at 23:46 UTC »
Currently, the Adirondack Mountain Club is encouraging prospective hikers to stay home and hike locally. Please abide by this principle as most likely the region is not as equipped for preventing/treating COVID-19 over where you are coming from.
If you like this shot, feel free to check meowt on my Instagram @danieljstein where I post more Milky Way Nightscapes like this!
Nope, the Milky Way does not look exactly like this with the naked eye. Humans cannot replicate the long exposures and telephoto focal lengths used here. With that said, the Milky Way is still an incredible site to behold in person. You cannot really compare what is seen here on a tiny computer/phone screen to actually being surrounded by a sky full of stars in real life.
This is a wider image I took last year in the Adirondacks which I tried to edit to represent how we see the night sky. Although it is not perfectly processed for how we see the night sky.
This image is a 2 image stack, consisting of 1 image with a star tracker for the Milky Way exposure and 1 untracked image for the foreground. All shots were taken consecutively one after the next. No crazy compositing or swapping the sky for a Milky Way facing a completely different direction here.
I used my h-alpha modified Nikon Z6 and Sigma 85mm f/1.4 ART lens to take this shot. I took 1 tracked shot for the stars at f/2.8, ISO 800, and 2 minutes. After the tracked shot finished, I took another shot to capture the detail on the landscape at f/1.4, ISO 6400, 5 seconds with the camera still on the tracker but not actually tracking as the moon rose for more ambient light. I did initial adjustments in LR on each image, then sent the foreground into PS and the stacked star layer into Pixinsight. From there, I performed adjustments to reduce the noise, color collaborate, reduce larger stars, as well as bring out more data in the Milky Way Core. After this, I brought the output file into PS where I stitched it together with the foreground untracked shot manually. I used masking to correct for a small discrepancy between the layers while performing additional adjustments to my liking to yield this final result.
TheVastReaches on April 26th, 2020 at 23:59 UTC »
Dude, I love these zoomed in Milky Way shots. Simply masterful work here getting a killer foreground in there, too.
Edit: my comment got some traction, but his work is awesome. Do him a solid and check out his gallery.
thelosermonster on April 27th, 2020 at 02:09 UTC »
It's unbelievable to think that we are on some small part of a small planet orbiting a small star that is just an almost negligible portion of this vast comsic body called the Milky Way, which in itself is a tiny part of a tiny part of a tiny part of all we can see, which might still be an infinitesimally small part of everything else!