As Night Turns to Day

[jsecordphoto]

This is the last photo I took while on my first Milky Way trip of the year a few weeks ago. This is actually 4 vertical photos stitched, taken at the beginning of blue hour during Nautical Twilight, right after 5am.

Each frame was ISO6400, f2.8, 25 seconds with my D750 and Tokina 16-28 @16mm

 

[John Hunt]

That's awesome.

 

[Rick50]

Very nice. Some pretty good processing too.

 

[WesternGuy]

I think Rick50 says it all.

WesternGuy

 

[RDenhardt]

That is absolutely beautiful!

 

[jsecordphoto]

Very nice. Some pretty good processing too.

Thanks Rick! As usual for panoramas like this, I duplicated the background layer and then processed the sky and foreground separately.

 

[goooner]

Breathtaking!

 

[annamaria]

Really nice!!

 

[bc_steve]

Cool! The snow helps the foreground stand out a bit too

 

[AFarhat]

....wow. Amazing shot

 

[Parker219]

Breaking News-----I am selling all of my equipment and taking up...basket weaving. No way in a million years could I produce an image like this!

 

[jsecordphoto]

Breaking News-----I am selling all of my equipment and taking up...basket weaving. No way in a million years could I produce an image like this!

Yes you could. My first night photos, from 18 months ago (ish), wouldn't be worth using as toilet paper. I just went out and shot a lot and learned to process them. if If I learned, so could you!

 

[pgriz]

Dang. You're good.

 

[jsecordphoto]

Dang. You're good.

Hah, thank you. I've put a lot of time and work in for sure, but I also feel extremely lucky to live in a beautiful area and to be able to go out and photograph it

 

[bulldurham]

It's a nice shot and I like the processing but I have to nitpick that for all that work, why didn't you also straighten out the horizon Line. It was immediately obvious and thusly kills the shot for me.