Image is a composite with the mountain took in blue hour and the sky obviously at night. Sky is 9 images stacked while the foreground is a 2 image panorama. I started off taking single shots of the milky way and various foregrounds but with my gear, I need to explore other avenues to make the picture cleaner and reduce noise.
Thank you.
Nice. Much better than the other shot in your portfolio! Carp noctum and keep shooting ; )
Cheers man! getting there slowly.
Great shot and excelent composition.
I find this technique the best one when we want the foreground also exposed in a way where not only the sky is the point of interest. I find this kind of compostition the most apealing, way more then the usual exposed sky + underexposed foreground aproach that is common in astrolandscape. I am also now begining to apply this kind of technique to my astrolandscape shots: stacking 7 to 10 expositions (tracked) of the nightsky and blending it with 1 exposition of the foreground (a long exposure when I don´t have de oportunity to shot it at blue hour or 1 exposure at blue hour). I am now trying to improve my post-processing workflow, specially the techniques to blend the sky with de foreground.
Thanks! yeah its such a cleaner technique and will look so much better in print than a single shot! where do you shoot??
I'm based in Portugal. I'll post 2 shots I made with this technique, both in Portugal where we have really clear and dark skies in summer.
I need to visit!! you have the Atlantic coast with no light pollution don't you??
It depends on the place. Southwest Atlantic Coast is the best without light pollution. But really really dark skies are in the countryside.
I'll have to visit !!