Taken earlier tonight at Walltown on Hadrian's wall. A thin, and invisible at the time with my eyes, veil of cloud was glowing probably from the street lights of Hawick 30 miles away. I don't usually like HDR but was playing with tone mapping and liked the effect. I shot at f2.8 28s 800ISO fuji XE-1 Fuji 14mm lens. When I started lifting the shadows a small amount of detail appeared, so I lifted it a great deal.
I know it is noisy and has no real detail in the foreground but I like the feel of the image. I did try light painting with a small torch later on but I don't think it would work on this image and my tiny led torch would struggle.
How do I get better star images, I see that 28s leaves the stars as short arcs. We have a dark sky area about 40 miles away and when I have the settings correct I may drive up to take images.
Ken