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Published: 2012-08-19 00:50:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 580; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 30
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Description My first try in photographing the milky way. Was done from the balkony - so there's quite a lot lightpollution and it's almost invisible because of that. Like this shot though.

Postprocessing: Stitched 2 photos, cropping, contrast, sharpness, whitebalance, saturation, layer effects, denoising and some dodging on the milky way.
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Comments: 5

Shadowolf159 [2012-08-19 16:56:22 +0000 UTC]

I think that cropping the homes in the photo might make it look better, but that's your choice

Love the photo, though.

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rontz In reply to Shadowolf159 [2012-08-19 17:09:57 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for your thoughts I tried different styles in cropping, but though it's not looking that good, it's still giving a major foreground to the picture, so I decided to keep it

Glad you like it

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ISeeTheLattice [2012-08-19 15:56:57 +0000 UTC]

A beautiful composition, even when accounting for the light pollution!

I am so curious... did you shoot it with your cam mounted on a timed motor?

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rontz In reply to ISeeTheLattice [2012-08-19 17:12:25 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, glad you like it that much

Nope, not much tech involved simple tripod (with a head that you can rotate by 90 degree). one shot for the foreground, tilted upwards manually, then the second shot and stitching with photoshop

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ISeeTheLattice In reply to rontz [2012-08-20 02:38:14 +0000 UTC]

I see... your resourcefullness is admirable.

Maybe once I get some more functional equipment, I'll try taking a crack at this.

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