Spread Your Wings

[CapturingTheNight]

"Spread Your Wings"

I had to get out under the stars at least once during International Dark Sky Week. I headed back to the pine forest that was completely burnt out by a bushfire a few months ago. It is quite eerie walking amongst all the bare trees.

25/04/2014
19 image all sky panorama. Canon 5D MkII, 14mm, F/2.8, ISO 3200, 19 x 30 seconds.
It was only after I stitched the images together that I noticed the bird like pattern made by the trees against the sky.

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[iceman]

Interesting result! Looks like a nice dark spot.

[CapturingTheNight]

Thank you very much Mike :D It certainly is.

[Carl]

Cool shot
Simple and striking

Carl

[gregbradley]

Looks great. You are my favourite nightscaper!

Greg.

[CapturingTheNight]

Thank you so much Carl and Greg :D

[SkyViking]

Very nice!

[EagleEyes]

Very nice! :thumbsup:

[CapturingTheNight]

Thank you so much Rolf and Andy :D

[StephenM]

Nice result Greg! I'm surprised you managed the whole sky with 19 images... how much overlap do you use? I'm just starting to play around with panos, but I think I must be taking too many images!

Cheers,
Stephen

[CapturingTheNight]

Thank you very much Stephen :D At least 50%. I like to have a particular object appear in the set of images at least 3 times. Once to the left of frame, once in the middle and once on the right. With 14mm on a full frame camera you can cover the whole sky with just 5 images (look up Colin Legg's 5 camera all sky timelapse work), but you don't get much foreground. It has a field of view of about 115 degrees. So for this I did 14 images shooting portrait style around the horizon and basically getting about 45 degrees foreground and about 70 degrees above the horizon. I then did 4 images pointed 45 degrees above the horizon at the 4 major compass points. And finally one image pointed straight up. I'll continue on your thread....

[JamesG]

This image is sweet as! :D

[CapturingTheNight]

Thanks mate :D

[astronobob]

Awesome shooting, kinda looks like you were down in a pit, remarkable work and a totally grouse result :cool2:
I tried a full pano type set for this kinda result, but PS CS3 didnt know what to do with all the photos :rofl:oh, I dont either Lol, ,
Impressive work :thumbsup:

[CapturingTheNight]

Thank you very much Bob :D PS always used to fail on me too for this sort of projection which is why I took the plunge and purchased a bit of dedicated pano software (PtGui Pro) and it handles this sort of thing really easily. I have not tried in PS since but I have heard that later versions of PS like CS6 and CC are better at panos.