Ok, it's already a magnificent image... then I saw your camera settings. Wow! Were you able to shoot at ISO 100 because it was so dark, and high enough altitude to have the pure light of the Milky Way?
Ooohhh. Ha... thank you. I'm relatively new at astrophotography... only 3 yrs now, but I couldn't figure out what I was missing there. I haven't got myself together enough to shoot foregrounds separate from the sky yet. That's my goal for the coming season. :)
Try taking the same photo 10-15 times at around 6400 iso at night and then bring them into Photoshop and do a thing called a medium stack to cut down on the noise in the image. Then for the stars take 10-15 exposures of the stars at around 15 sec. Then you can stack them in an application called starry landscape stacker. see how that works. :)
Thank you, Anthony. I'll give it a go. It sounds like I've been using too high an ISO... at 1600, to 3200. Either I doubt my skill or my Pentax. I use a K-3 II. I manage to forget taking a dark shot, lens cap on, to distinguish noise types in processing. But it's all practice. :)
Ok, it's already a magnificent image... then I saw your camera settings. Wow! Were you able to shoot at ISO 100 because it was so dark, and high enough altitude to have the pure light of the Milky Way?
the foreground was shot at 100 iso, and the sky was shot on a tracking mount at i believe 800 iso. Thank you for such kind words! :]
Ooohhh. Ha... thank you. I'm relatively new at astrophotography... only 3 yrs now, but I couldn't figure out what I was missing there. I haven't got myself together enough to shoot foregrounds separate from the sky yet. That's my goal for the coming season. :)
Try taking the same photo 10-15 times at around 6400 iso at night and then bring them into Photoshop and do a thing called a medium stack to cut down on the noise in the image. Then for the stars take 10-15 exposures of the stars at around 15 sec. Then you can stack them in an application called starry landscape stacker. see how that works. :)
Thank you, Anthony. I'll give it a go. It sounds like I've been using too high an ISO... at 1600, to 3200. Either I doubt my skill or my Pentax. I use a K-3 II. I manage to forget taking a dark shot, lens cap on, to distinguish noise types in processing. But it's all practice. :)