Milky way in Oklahoma

ronlane · Sep 19, 2014

Here are a couple of milky way photos that I took this summer.

1) Source of the Milky way.

Milky way 1 by Ron_Lane, on Flickr

2) Just the milky way.

Milky way 2 by Ron_Lane, on Flickr

3) The milky way and the tree.

Milky way 3 by Ron_Lane, on Flickr

NancyMoranG · Sep 19, 2014

Wow, wow, wow!
Settings? And was there a moon out?
Nancy

pgriz · Sep 19, 2014

That does it. I'm moving to Oklahoma.

ronlane · Sep 19, 2014

Thanks Nancy.

They were all shot at - 15mm, f/3.5, 30 seconds, ISO 3200. There was no moon out, it had set or was really close to it. These were taken about 10:30 pm.

ronlane · Sep 19, 2014

pgriz said:
That does it. I'm moving to Oklahoma.

Come on out, there's plenty of room. I'm lucky that my parents live out in the country, 5 miles from the nearest town and 15 miles from a city that would effect the ground. (but it is west of them so, it doesn't bother the photos).

Designer · Sep 19, 2014

#1 nominated for POTM, September, 2014

My reasons: "Seeing outside the box", excellent balance, composition, and light.

ronlane · Sep 19, 2014

Designer said:
#1 nominated for POTM, September, 2014

My reasons: "Seeing outside the box", excellent balance, composition, and light.

Thank you so much.

paigew · Sep 19, 2014

Beautiful!!

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oldhippy · Sep 19, 2014

Awe struck here. Just beautiful.

JacaRanda · Sep 19, 2014

Now that's what I'm talking bout

Freakin amazing! Oh wait......SWEETNESS!

shefjr · Sep 19, 2014

Number one is beautiful!

jsecordphoto · Sep 19, 2014

they're very contrasty, that's for sure. Did you bump up the clarity a ton too? There's just a lot of haloing which usually happens when you increase the clarity too much

dannylightning · Sep 19, 2014

does that shot require allot of photo editing, its hard to bereave that you can just get a shot like that with out editing the crap out of it. but i don't know, not so may stars out that often where i live i just always figured there was allot of work to make something like that.

it looks absolutely awesome though..

ronlane · Sep 19, 2014

paigew said:
Beautiful!!
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Thank you

oldhippy said:
Awe struck here. Just beautiful.

Thank you

JacaRanda said:
Now that's what I'm talking bout Freakin amazing! Oh wait......SWEETNESS!

Thanks JacaRanda

shefjr said:
Number one is beautiful!

Thank you.

jsecordphoto said:
they're very contrasty, that's for sure. Did you bump up the clarity a ton too? There's just a lot of haloing which usually happens when you increase the clarity too much

I did add contrast with the slider and the curve. Yes, I did bump up the clarity. All of my processing was taken from watching youtube videos.

ronlane · Sep 19, 2014

dannylightning said:
does that shot require allot of photo editing, its hard to bereave that you can just get a shot like that with out editing the crap out of it. but i don't know, not so may stars out that often where i live i just always figured there was allot of work to make something like that.

it looks absolutely awesome though..

From the videos that I have watched, there is a good amount of processing to do to bring out the milky way and the stars.

Thank you.