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First time trying to embed the link with the html code from flickr. Hope it works.
Trying the BBC code instead of the HTML code. Not sure what bbc stands for but I'll give it a shot. Looked for a sticky giving instructions, I'll look a little more if this doesn't work.
I find the brighter foreground object and trees compete too much with the sky making them the stronger focal point, when the sky and stars is more interesting. Do you have any shots where less foreground lighting (or none) was used for comparison?
Here is a version without the foreground lit (the midground is still lit.) I guess I could average the two. I tried averaging the two but the problem is that the floating tree stump is moving and doesn't line up easily. Thanks for the comments, I did darken the horizon lights a bit.