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RustyBug wrote:
No hurry, no worry ... this is one that you'll take your time to get it just where you want it, even if that is days, weeks, months or years. The key point here is "where YOU want it".
Again,
Now ... get some sleep.
Got some sleep and reprocessing the image.
Walt
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lighthound wrote:
For your first try I'd say you hit it out of the park Walt! Great job and well worth your efforts.
I do agree with the others on loosing the FG building as shown in Kent's very nice edit.
Although I must say I'm impressed on how well you captured such a huge range of things in sharp focus. Now I'm wondering what your settings were that allowed you to pull that off? And how did you hold it open long enough to get the MW and yet not get severe blown areas from the Lighthouse and other man made lights in the scene?
Other than the building all I can offer is to play around with your sat and WB along the MW especially the core area. You'll be amazed on how much color is actually there that we can't see with our eyes.
+1 @ taking your time and revisiting this one over a long period of time. After you print it of course. You have a ton of goodness here and if you are anything like me, you will learn little things here and there along the way and in another year you could revisit this image and process it even further with your new found knowledge. That's one of the cool things about photography IMHO. There is ALWAYS something more to learn.
Again, fantastic job Walt! I really love this shot(s).
Dave
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Thank you Dave, I used a 17mm lens and 2.8 focused on infinity, I was just lucky it all fell into focus.
I exposed the best I could for the Milky Way and let the chips fall where they may.
I just can't seem to pull out a lot of color
After getting some sleep and rereading everyone's comments I reworked the image.
I just couldn't get rid of the front building it was one of the lighthouse keepers homes, it also would have cropped out the tail of the arc.
I leveled it per Scott's suggestion but this time when I merged them it came up with a slight bow, and the image doesn't have the pixels to spare vertically. One of the bummers of shooting it with a 12 meg camera.
Walt
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