[Mickoid (Michael)]

I took this on Wednesday night down at Cape Schanck with an 18-55mm Canon kit lens. My intention was to use a Samyang 14mm to obtain a nice wide field of this rugged coastline under moonlight but I forgot to put it in the car! The only solution was to do a mosaic to roughly construct a field of view with the 18mm similar to what the 14mm would have made. The stitching of frames is rather tricky with a wide lens because of the distortions the lens produces to achieve a wide FOV. Each overlap was different top and bottom so there was some stretching involved in Photoshop Layers to scale and align the stars as best I could. Adding to the difficulty, the lens produced varying colour casts which were hard to match at the overlapping frames.

This photo is a blend of a 2 min exposure of the foreground and four frames tracked for 1 min with a Nano Tracker, both at 1600 iso, f 3.5, with a modded Canon 550d under a first quarter moon.