This is from last November, I ran up to shoot fall colors in Yosemite. This is from Gates of the Valley. The water was quite low, and with that big old tree out of the way of the main viewing area, it is really easy to get out into the middle of the Merced.
As I was shooting, I had to deal with lot's of cars driving by. I don't think I could get at most 2 shots in a row without any kind of car lights. I just had my remote release locked in though, because sometimes you just don't know and the car lights can light up the foreground in a cool way. In most of the car headlight shots, the lights were coming right into the camera and way too bright, but there was 2 or 3 that the lighting was pretty cool.
This isn't the best time of year to be shooting the Milky Way, but even it's whisper is cool to see and catch I think.
I used Kyles Night time Noise reduction method to deal with the noise.
https://www.focalworld.com/index.php?articles/night-time-noise-reduction.45/
So this is a stack of 4 images all shot within a 3 or 4 minute span. The main coloring is from 1 shot that turned out the wildest. The other images weren't as colorful, but they were lit up enough to help when I used the Mean blending mode on the stack of 4 so that the main colors on the ground didn't disappear.
This one has grown on me. Perhaps the foreground might be too wild for some of you, but I kind of like it.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
As I was shooting, I had to deal with lot's of cars driving by. I don't think I could get at most 2 shots in a row without any kind of car lights. I just had my remote release locked in though, because sometimes you just don't know and the car lights can light up the foreground in a cool way. In most of the car headlight shots, the lights were coming right into the camera and way too bright, but there was 2 or 3 that the lighting was pretty cool.
This isn't the best time of year to be shooting the Milky Way, but even it's whisper is cool to see and catch I think.
I used Kyles Night time Noise reduction method to deal with the noise.
https://www.focalworld.com/index.php?articles/night-time-noise-reduction.45/
So this is a stack of 4 images all shot within a 3 or 4 minute span. The main coloring is from 1 shot that turned out the wildest. The other images weren't as colorful, but they were lit up enough to help when I used the Mean blending mode on the stack of 4 so that the main colors on the ground didn't disappear.
This one has grown on me. Perhaps the foreground might be too wild for some of you, but I kind of like it.
All comments are welcome,
Jim