Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Chris Calohan on September 24, 2014, 10:29:14 am
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Posted an earlier shot of the Milky Way but after being more dogged in the processing department and figuring out how to make some needed separations, I came up with this iteration...and I think, no matter what God you believe or disbelieve in, the title is quite fitting.
Shot looking out over the Gulf of Mexico
Nikon D810, 20mm 2.8 @ 2.8, 15 seconds, ISO 1600
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And that's just a portion of one galaxy amongst hundreds of billions of them. Like you say, insignificant, yet each one of us is unique.
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Quite. Monty Python put it quite well (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44DlSj6bnn4).
Jeremy
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Or less amusingly, but maybe more deeply philosophical ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M)
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I like both, but it is this one I think I like the most:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc&index=9&list=RD44DlSj6bnn4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc&index=9&list=RD44DlSj6bnn4)
We are indeed unique because even as specks intertwined in this vastness, we can record this majesty in so many ways.
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Also very beautiful . I think that post-processing of night shots is half the battle, and I might say, the battle that I haven't even come close to fighting well. Now what can I do with this slider.....
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+1. I'll say it again, I never grow tired of images of the night sky, especially when so nicely processed.
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Like you, Nancy, post processing these images will make a grown man/woman cry. I finally figured out that my in-camera WB had to be set a little cooler from the outset so I adjusted to 3400K, enough so to remove much of the tendency toward orangey-browns given by Auto WB 1. The hardest past for me in processing these is to get any depth in the MW "cloud." For this, there was a lot of slider action - contrast, shadows, colors, levels, curves..tweak here, tweak there, until on my last exposure of the night, I was able to get to this point.
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Re second image: There you go! I see that D800 wasn't good enough for you ;)
I would like to experiment with this out here in the desert, but haven't yet made time.
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Second image - I really like the faintly visible grass in the foreground. This gives some of the "real" feeling - we (people with dark-adapted eyes watching the sky) can see the foreground setting in real life, and subtle exposure blending mimics that "grounded, yet looking at the sky" feeling.