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July Astrophotography Update.


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Here are a few more from my most recent batch. I think i'm getting the hang of this!

 

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c192/BertoBizkit/Fred%20Miranda%20Forum%20Entries/DSC_1032%20BCSP%20West%20Lookout%20Tower%20-%20MW%20edited%20web.jpg

 

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c192/BertoBizkit/Fred%20Miranda%20Forum%20Entries/DSC_1011%20Bean%20Blossom%20Bridge%20final%20-%20web.jpg

 

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c192/BertoBizkit/Fred%20Miranda%20Forum%20Entries/DSC_0854%20Cataract%20Falls%20MW%202%20-%20web.jpg

 

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c192/BertoBizkit/Fred%20Miranda%20Forum%20Entries/Nashville%20Red%20Barn%20MW%20Panorama%208x10%20-%20web.jpg

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Very nice. Exif?

Its a bit tough all three are two exposure shots. Foregrounds at 800 iso around 5 min and skies are 3200 ISO at 25 sec.

 

Fucking gorgeous pictures :cool:

 

These are sweeeeet

 

Thanks dudes!

 

You don't sleep much do you :)

 

says the guy posting at 2:40am

 

I had a clear night the other night and I was just too tired to go out after staining my deck. I felt like a terrible person. but yea sleep is at a premium some weeks!

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So how "doctored" are those?

 

Depends. Like I said these are two shots blended into one. Most of the photoshop work goes into blending the foreground and the sky.

 

These are actual views/alignments. There is a big divide between astrophotographers and what we call artists. Where they take a foreground and take a sky shot from a different day and post process them together. I plan these shots, and its most of the time I have into taking them. By the time I do all my scouting its not unusual to have over 10 hrs in a shot, by the time I drive to and from it.

 

The shots are adjusted before blending them together. All your basic stuff. brightness, shadows (if needed), maybe the white balance/hue, contrast.

 

With that said I am allowed to enter photography contests that state 'minor photoshopping allowed'. In reality all I am doing is the same thing an In-camera HDR does, but the camera can't handle that big of a dynamic range. There is really no way around it.

 

I do get single image shots when i'm framing my shot at 12000+ ISO but they are so grainy you might as well draw it with crayons.

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