This past July, during the new moon, I did a quick one night backpack trip into the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho to collect this image. Well, there were two reasons for the backpack trip, reconnoiter how trail conditions were to take my grandson and granddaughter on a backpack trip, and try my luck with astrophotography. This was taken from my camp spot on the shores of Alice Lake.
This image was taken with a Nikon D850, Rokinon 24mm f1.4 lens at f1.4 ISO 1600 8 Sec. Also, I used Starry Landscape Stacker v1.6.2 to combine 10 images into this final image. Some minor tweaking was accomplished in Lightroom and Photoshop to bring out some details in the mountains and darken the blackness of the sky a bit.
Your thoughts and critic is most welcome. Enjoy.
Paul, that is a fantastic photo.
Thank you.
a beautiful image with pin point sharp stars!! As you were using Starry Landscape Stacker anyway (I really like this software!) I can think of one thing you could have done:
make a very long exposure for the foreground. In your current version the foreground is rather noisy and you see some color artefacts (probably) from brightening the foreground.
Did you also combine the 10 images for the foreground or did you just use one image for it?