A Rocky Milky Way

JimFox

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Last Saturday I met Alisa up on Trail Ridge in Rocky Mountain National Park to do some Milky Way photography, and I also was going to do Deep Space Astro up there. I had 2 cameras set up in stationary locations for timelapses, but I took one of the my cameras and used it as a freelance camera, where I just moved around with it into a lot of different compositions up there.

This is a 2 shot Horizontal Pano. So it is a single image based on the pano. One thing I will mention is that the ground layer wasn't very noisy, but some noise could be seen when pixel peeping. In ACR I used the Details and let it apply the automatic Noise Reduction. It appears to be very similar to what Topaz does. The Noise Reduction was awesome, absolutely no noise, and it was still super sharp. The only issue is on my i5 laptop that I was running the conversions on, it took it 9 minutes to Enhance (DeNoise) the image. So that's pretty slow, okay it's a lot slow. But I use several computers at once, so it didn't really affect me, as I was using my main computer on something else.

Sony A6400
Samyang 12mm f2.0
ISO 3200
25 secs
f2

All comments are welcome,

Jim

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JimFox

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very nice! great results with the noise reduction.
Thanks! I normally just use a little Luminance Reduction in ACR, and for me it's good. The Detail option in ACR though totally takes it to a new level. You would think if you pixel peeped that the ground layer was taken during twilight when you can get noise free ground layers. It's too bad it takes so long, so it wouldn't be practical for my timelapses, but for a single shot, this is really nice.
 
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