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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 69 |
Mar 26 |
Reply |
Dean,
The standard practice is to take multiple exposures with the camera in portrait orientation, moving from left to right, with about 50% overlap. If possible you should take multiple exposures at each position (not more than 20) before moving to the next segment on the right. And at the end you could take a series or a single exposure of the foreground. And then add that to the stack with some blending. You will get better results using a specialized stacking software (Starry Landscape Stacker (Mac) or Sequator (Win).
Hope this is helpful.
Jas |
Mar 3rd |
| 69 |
Mar 26 |
Comment |
Here is the color crop. |
Mar 3rd |
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| 69 |
Mar 26 |
Comment |
Cindy,
Lovely picture. I also commend you for venturing out in -4F weather to get these shots.
Jas |
Mar 3rd |
| 69 |
Mar 26 |
Comment |
Mervyn,
I love the image. I am guessing this was taken from the back of the cruiser and hence the slightly high viewpoint. Adding a slight vignette would help bring attention to the subject.
Jas |
Mar 3rd |
| 69 |
Mar 26 |
Comment |
Pierre,
Beautiful image. Nothing to add :-))
Jas |
Mar 3rd |
| 69 |
Mar 26 |
Comment |
Dean,
This is a fairly good image for an unstacked group. Good composition. You have the hills in the background and the Milky Way well exposed. The linear graduated filter from the bottom would have eliminated the foreground haze which is a little distracting. I'm a little surprised by the amount of comma in the periphery of the image. From what I have read about the Sigma 14 1.4, it is one of the best lenses for astro.
Did you mean 5 individual landscape images stacked or 5 individual portrait-oriented images stitched together? Processing these images are difficult, with a long drawn out routine in Photoshop. Software exists which make it easier but still cumbersome (one of the reasons I have images of nebulae sitting on my HDD "gathering dust."
Jas
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Mar 3rd |
| 69 |
Mar 26 |
Reply |
Hi Dean,
Thank you for your comments. Certainly. I have sent the original to Mervyn as I am not sure how to cut it down to the required size without converting it to JPEG. I tried to export the file as I usually do for PSA and it still was 1.6Mb in size.
Jas |
Mar 3rd |
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