Recently relocated to Switzerland... and I went from living in the largest city in my state (Burlington, VT - pop of the county around ~170,000 and the state ~620,000) to just outside the largest city in the country (Zürich - population of the canton ~1.4 million).
Finally settling in and getting out with the camera. I’m going to have to go to school on gradients and LP removal, and I’m going to have to find some accessible dark skies. And wait until it gets darker earlier!
Anyway, 2 different images of the Big D, from the terrace outside the bedroom, on a hot, hazy night.
Dusting off my gear and getting it all sorted for an upcoming trip to the mountains, where I hope to have clear skies and better seeing, and views to the south.
CC welcome, but I know these are not the greatest images.
Canon 6d Mk2 with Sigma 35 Art (wish I’d used the 85...).
Shot at 800 because my usual 1600 was blowing out with the sky glow.
F2.8, 30s, 800 66 of 77 stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker and processed in Ps and Lr.
Polar alignment looks a little off, I normally work by eye, compass and level - but I have the polar scope now for the Vixen Polarie and have been practicing using it.
And one of the 77) 30s frames I used to stack, after Lr lens correction and dropping the contrast and tweaking the highlights, blacks and whites.
Finally settling in and getting out with the camera. I’m going to have to go to school on gradients and LP removal, and I’m going to have to find some accessible dark skies. And wait until it gets darker earlier!
Anyway, 2 different images of the Big D, from the terrace outside the bedroom, on a hot, hazy night.
Dusting off my gear and getting it all sorted for an upcoming trip to the mountains, where I hope to have clear skies and better seeing, and views to the south.
CC welcome, but I know these are not the greatest images.
Canon 6d Mk2 with Sigma 35 Art (wish I’d used the 85...).
Shot at 800 because my usual 1600 was blowing out with the sky glow.
F2.8, 30s, 800 66 of 77 stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker and processed in Ps and Lr.
Polar alignment looks a little off, I normally work by eye, compass and level - but I have the polar scope now for the Vixen Polarie and have been practicing using it.
And one of the 77) 30s frames I used to stack, after Lr lens correction and dropping the contrast and tweaking the highlights, blacks and whites.
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