Just got back from NZ and had my first try at astrophotography
Definitely have a lot to learn but am already planning to head to some dark skies in Sydney when I get a chance...
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Charles Mercier
German contemporary art museum
Just a few shots - not of the art but the building interior!
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Last: Aug 03, 2026
Bartek M. Wojtkunski
Snowfall, Leon
A stone shepherd's cabin with an orange roof beside a high-altitude lake in the province of Leon during an unexpected late spring snowfall.
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Last: Aug 03, 2026
Dean Wilson
The Sun and the Moon: Edited to add last photo
I wanted to see how my 50 year old Canon FD 800mm f/5.6 s.s.c. would handle photographing both the Sun and the Moon.
1 - Revealing sunspots. (Square cropped)
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Last: Aug 02, 2026
Hector Reyes
Sterling in silhouette
I held a lighting workshop recently. Sterling was the model. I rarely shoot silhouettes but I wanted to incorporate that arch into a shot. Backlighting became an obvious choice.
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Have you tried luminosity in Photoshop ? It helps bring up the stars better.
Any examples you can show me Campbell? happy for you to edit any of my photos
Thanks Campbell, not a fan of overdoing the post processing
https://fstoppers.com/groups/102129/astrophotography/116252/astro-photo…
Take a look at two I posted a few weeks ago from York, Western Australia. I used luminosity to select the lights only from the stars.I learned the technique of YouTube.
Nice series! As Campbell mentioned, it wouldn't hurt to bring the stars out a bit more in post. I like the foreground in image in 2 is cool although it feels like you could rotate the image 10-15 degrees clockwise so the guardrail comes out of the corner. Love how the moonlight is lighting up the foreground in the last image.
Thanks Richard, I think it was a car headlights and not the moon lighting up the rock formation in the last image
Hey Gary! Nice photos for your first try! What I do, to bring out the milkyway is to use the "expose to the left" method. You can find it on youtube. The 2nd thing i do is a adjusment curve: I select the darkest spot in the milkyway, drag it down and select the lightest spot in the milkyway and drag it up. You then end up with a S-curve. I then use a mask to brush in the needed amount of contrast.
Here's my example:
https://fstoppers.com/photo/88978
Back in Oz now and shot the milky way last night
latest shot
I started doing astrophotography too.. It is really great! Im taking a night sky workshop at the beginning of june in maine.. can't wait! here is a few of mine from last year