St Michael's Mount and the Milky Way || Marazion, Cornwall, England

[Will B Milner]

Hey Guys,



It's been a while since I've been on dpreview. I thought I'd just post a quick image from the other night. I hope you all like it.



Many thanks,



Will





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[sharkmelley]

That really is a beautiful shot!!

The composition is great and the colours look excellent.

Can we have some details about camera, lens, f-ratio, exposure time etc?

Mark

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[Astrophotographer 10]

Hey Guys,

It's been a while since I've been on dpreview. I thought I'd just post a quick image from the other night. I hope you all like it.

Many thanks,

Will



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That is superb! One of the best nightscapes I have seen on this site. Fabulous colour and saturation on the Milky Way and such a great scene and framing.

Greg.

 

[Will B Milner]

That really is a beautiful shot!!

The composition is great and the colours look excellent.

Can we have some details about camera, lens, f-ratio, exposure time etc?

Mark

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Takahashi Epsilon 180ED
H-alpha modified Sony A7S
http://www.markshelley.co.uk/Astronomy/

Hey Mark,

Thank you very much, that really means a lot. I've been trying more and more to make my night landscapes as clean and natural as possible. I've slowly been developing this technique for nearly two years. It's quite a laborious process to put into action but it's like a big jigsaw and I love putting them together.

Gear - D810 / 14-24 f2.8 / Fornax LT II / FLM Tripod

Regarding the image. It's a composite of 18 images and an additional 3-4 images used as a reference for the light characteristics of the light pollution and street light glow from behind. Two images for the foreground and mount in blue hour, focus stacked at 14mm / f8 / iso 64 / 30sec, another image for the foreground at close focus on the cobbles a little later in astronomic twilight for the sodium glow 14mm / f5.6 / iso 200 / 120sec.

I then left and went over to the cliffs at Porthcurno and setup the Fornax and shot directly out to sea to capture the milky way, 15 x 18mm / f4 / iso 800 / 180sec.

I did also capture some additional frames at St Michael's Mount (14mm / f4-5.6 / iso 200/400/800) to use as a reference for the light pollution characteristics coming from Penzance to the right.

RAW corrected in LR, stacked in PixInsight, stretched using your amazing tool and all blended together in PS.

I hope this helps!

Many thanks,

Will

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[Will B Milner]

Hey Guys,

It's been a while since I've been on dpreview. I thought I'd just post a quick image from the other night. I hope you all like it.

Many thanks,

Will



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That is superb! One of the best nightscapes I have seen on this site. Fabulous colour and saturation on the Milky Way and such a great scene and framing.

Greg.

Wow... thank you, that's quite the compliment!! It's an amazing place, I highly recommend the whole area, it's breathtakingly beautiful and steeped in history!

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[Tristimulus]

Great image - makes me want to be there!

Also fine balance between ground and sky, and none of the usual converging lines where trees or buildings or whatever seems to be topping over - elegant.

Interesting to see what some extra effort can add to the image.

 

[Will B Milner]

Great image - makes me want to be there!

Also fine balance between ground and sky, and none of the usual converging lines where trees or buildings or whatever seems to be topping over - elegant.

Interesting to see what some extra effort can add to the image.

Thanks Trollmannx, I'm glad the extra effort is appreciated. I am becoming more fastidious with every image. My wife thinks I'm going mad.

 

[biza43]

Good exposure and colours, but the composition does not work for me. Too much uninteresting foreground, with the cobbled way taking up too much space.

 

[Will B Milner]

Good exposure and colours, but the composition does not work for me. Too much uninteresting foreground, with the cobbled way taking up too much space.

 

[On_the_pond]

Thanks for posting this Will, it is one of the best overall landscape astro images that I’ve seen.

Exposure for both the foreground and the MW core are dead-on. I particularly like the colors that you’ve been able to pull from the Milky Way and associated stars.

john

 

[sharkmelley]

That really is a beautiful shot!!

The composition is great and the colours look excellent.

Can we have some details about camera, lens, f-ratio, exposure time

Hey Mark,

Thank you very much, that really means a lot. I've been trying more and more to make my night landscapes as clean and natural as possible. I've slowly been developing this technique for nearly two years. It's quite a laborious process to put into action but it's like a big jigsaw and I love putting them together.

Gear - D810 / 14-24 f2.8 / Fornax LT II / FLM Tripod

Regarding the image. It's a composite of 18 images and an additional 3-4 images used as a reference for the light characteristics of the light pollution and street light glow from behind. Two images for the foreground and mount in blue hour, focus stacked at 14mm / f8 / iso 64 / 30sec, another image for the foreground at close focus on the cobbles a little later in astronomic twilight for the sodium glow 14mm / f5.6 / iso 200 / 120sec.

I then left and went over to the cliffs at Porthcurno and setup the Fornax and shot directly out to sea to capture the milky way, 15 x 18mm / f4 / iso 800 / 180sec.

I did also capture some additional frames at St Michael's Mount (14mm / f4-5.6 / iso 200/400/800) to use as a reference for the light pollution characteristics coming from Penzance to the right.

RAW corrected in LR, stacked in PixInsight, stretched using your amazing tool and all blended together in PS.

I hope this helps!

Many thanks,

Will

 

[sharkmelley]

Good exposure and colours, but the composition does not work for me. Too much uninteresting foreground, with the cobbled way taking up too much space.

 

[1llusive]

Really, really like this. Well done.

 

[OllieN]

Fabulous image of a great place!

Colours are great... I must work out which part of my workflow seems to lose my saturation as I get nowhere near the intensity you manage.

I like the cobbles too. Particularly having done the walk/wade/boat trip a number of times.

Cheers,

Ollie

 

[Andy01]

Spectacular image. Obviously took a lot of effort in capturing the various images, and then artfully putting them all together. Something to aspire to.

Colin

 

[Will B Milner]

That really is a beautiful shot!!

The composition is great and the colours look excellent.

Can we have some details about camera, lens, f-ratio, exposure time

Hey Mark,

Thank you very much, that really means a lot. I've been trying more and more to make my night landscapes as clean and natural as possible. I've slowly been developing this technique for nearly two years. It's quite a laborious process to put into action but it's like a big jigsaw and I love putting them together.

Gear - D810 / 14-24 f2.8 / Fornax LT II / FLM Tripod

Regarding the image. It's a composite of 18 images and an additional 3-4 images used as a reference for the light characteristics of the light pollution and street light glow from behind. Two images for the foreground and mount in blue hour, focus stacked at 14mm / f8 / iso 64 / 30sec, another image for the foreground at close focus on the cobbles a little later in astronomic twilight for the sodium glow 14mm / f5.6 / iso 200 / 120sec.

I then left and went over to the cliffs at Porthcurno and setup the Fornax and shot directly out to sea to capture the milky way, 15 x 18mm / f4 / iso 800 / 180sec.

I did also capture some additional frames at St Michael's Mount (14mm / f4-5.6 / iso 200/400/800) to use as a reference for the light pollution characteristics coming from Penzance to the right.

RAW corrected in LR, stacked in PixInsight, stretched using your amazing tool and all blended together in PS.

I hope this helps!

Many thanks,

Will

 

[Will B Milner]

Good exposure and colours, but the composition does not work for me. Too much uninteresting foreground, with the cobbled way taking up too much space.

 

[Will B Milner]

Thanks for posting this Will, it is one of the best overall landscape astro images that I’ve seen.

Exposure for both the foreground and the MW core are dead-on. I particularly like the colors that you’ve been able to pull from the Milky Way and associated stars.

john

Wow thanks John, you're very kind!

 

[Will B Milner]

Really, really like this. Well done.

Thanks 1llusive! It's one hell of a cool location.

 

[Will B Milner]

Fabulous image of a great place!

Colours are great... I must work out which part of my workflow seems to lose my saturation as I get nowhere near the intensity you manage.

I like the cobbles too. Particularly having done the walk/wade/boat trip a number of times.

Cheers,

Ollie

Thanks Ollie! It really is a great place... We used to visit when I was a child and has been on my 'me too' hit list for a while (I tried and failed in May, which was pretty galling after a 300 mile drive)

Regarding processing - I prefer little incremental changes when processing. A lot of little fine adjustments often leads me to a more polished final product. I also can't recommend PCC and Mark's ArcSinh stretching tool enough. My Durdle Door image took around 5-6 hours to process (Manually with the curves tool in PS)... this was more like 2 1/2 with. I was thinking of doing a little (probably massive) start-to-finish tutorial on this image... not sure if I'd have an audience for it though.

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