My First Ever Star Shot

Quoddy

Shot this photo of the Milky Way on September 6th, 2013 on a remote road outside of Milbridge, Maine. New moon and cloudless sky this night. Taken with a Fuji X100s using ISO 3200, F2.8, for 25 seconds. Tripod was a RRS TVC24L and BH-40LR head.

Juano

I am always amazed that you can actually see the Milky Way. I saw it for the first time a few years ago. Until then I thought it was a Greek myth of some sort!

pathfinder

Well done!

JC

That's a good capture of the detail of the detail in the Milky way. It looks like your white balance is off though, it's way too brown (if you are going for a faithful capture).

Quoddy

kolibri wrote: »

That's a good capture of the detail of the detail in the Milky way. It looks like your white balance is off though, it's way too brown (if you are going for a faithful capture).

Yes, I entirely agree. I decided not to do manipulation on the shot and skipped Efex Pro 2 and LR4 completely. I did use 2 clicks of iPhoto lightening and a click or two of increased contrast.

Earache

kolibri wrote: »

That's a good capture of the detail of the detail in the Milky way. It looks like your white balance is off though, it's way too brown (if you are going for a faithful capture).

In addition, some of the most successful compositions of this nature include terrestrial elements as anchors - trees, boulders, water, etc. - it helps to give scale and perspective.

JC

Quoddy wrote: »

Yes, I entirely agree. I decided not to do manipulation on the shot and skipped Efex Pro 2 and LR4 completely. I did use 2 clicks of iPhoto lightening and a click or two of increased contrast.

Well, if you shot raw and that's the result with the auto-white balance, then it should be a fairly easy fix, especially outside a little town in Maine that doesn't (presumably) have an excessive amount of light pollution.