From my most recent Milky Way outing in Southwestern Idaho. Shooting and postprocessing details are below the photograph.
Shooting info:
Capture was made between moonset and the beginning of morning astronomical twilight, leaving only the light pollution from the small town of Hammett, which can be seen at the low point on the horizon. These were the darkest skies I have had so far this year. There was a very slight haze in the air. Exposure was two minutes on a tracking mount. Sadly, time constraints prevented me from getting an untracked ambient light exposure of the foreground to composite with the sky.
Postprocessing info:
(all accomplished in Photoshop)
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Shooting info:
Capture was made between moonset and the beginning of morning astronomical twilight, leaving only the light pollution from the small town of Hammett, which can be seen at the low point on the horizon. These were the darkest skies I have had so far this year. There was a very slight haze in the air. Exposure was two minutes on a tracking mount. Sadly, time constraints prevented me from getting an untracked ambient light exposure of the foreground to composite with the sky.
Postprocessing info:
(all accomplished in Photoshop)
- Vignette correction
- Curves and Hue/Saturation adjustments to salvage some of the color in the foreground
- Cloned away four street lamps in the midground
- Two Curves adjustments and one Hue/Saturation adjustment to sky
