Thanks guys for very nice comments. I am glad you liked it
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Your approach has a nice natural look compared to many other versions of this sort of skyscape shot. Often the forground is unaturally lit or has an unatural almost corney "prop" in the scene or the HDR process imparts an unrealistic look to the image... but not in this case
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Thanks Mike. That was what I tried to acheive - a look close to what I saw when I was there. To control the noise I had to stack and de-rotate 7 images for the sky, then stack the same shots separately for the foreground and blend them back together in Photoshop. It was much harder than at Cape Schanck because there I had enough light on the ground from the lighthouse but here the only source of light was the Milky Way.
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Originally Posted by dugnsuz
And, the timelapse is very smooth indeed. Wish the rocks and water had the equivalent lighting as seen in the still image - though I think that may be difficult to achieve.
Which program did you use to merge the milky way and foreground rocks into the one timelapse sequence?
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Doug, I pulled the shadows on the foreground in the time-lapse frames as much as I could before it became too noisy; can't use my stacking technique on the animated sequences unfortunately.
I use Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum v9 for video and time lapse work.
Cheers,
Alex