[StephenM (Stephen)]

Originally Posted by kinetic

Beautiful shots Stephen.
I did a background colour tweak in Nebulosity, it loses the beautiful
softness on the distant hills but brings out the MW a bit better.
Hope you don't mind

Steve

Thanks Steve!

Yep, that's a good re-edit. I might try and see if I can bring the MW out a bit better in Lightroom, without altering the hills.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Great results. It looks like that lens is a keeper.

Greg.

Thanks Greg! It's been a while since I last used this lens - I think I should get out and use it more often.

Originally Posted by leon

Love your images Stephen, especially the first one, someone or something in the foreground certainly sets of the captures, well done.

Leon

Thanks Leon! I agree that having a bit of foreground makes a Milky Way image.. and in the absence of a tree it had to be me!

Originally Posted by hotspur

These are great Stephen-I like that first one-did you have someone turn a torch on and illuminate you in last few seconds of exposure?

Thanks Chris! I couldn't convince the rest of my family to get up at 3:30am and help (surprise, surprise...!), so I just set up a torch reflecting off my car, and then set the camera on the 10 second timer and kept as still as I could for the 30 second exposure. It's harder that I thought and it took a few goes to get a decent result, but I'm happy with the first one especially.

Cheers,
Stephen