It's probably not the done thing, but I tried combining 2 x 10 mins worth of tracked subs with a static horizon. Took lots of fiddling around both with saws & drills to attach the camera at the right angle, and then in Photoshop to put it all together, but I finally got a result.
Shot in my back yard last night. Three angles; one single long-exposure for the foreground, two 10 x 60-second stacks for the sky. Both stacked & processed in DSS, all three edited in Lightroom, exported to Photoshop for panoramic stitching and further editing, final edit back in Lightroom.
Shot with a Nikon D600, Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 at 24mm & f/4.5 from atop a NEQ6 mount.
Would be interested to hear any feedback. Do people do this sort of setup or am I being ridiculous? Do you think the image actually works, or does it look somewhat cobbled together?
I like it, you've done a really nice job stitching the different shots together, looks natural, what I mean is it looks like it could have been one shot. Well done Chris, makes me want to move to the central coast of NSW! Maybe you should post it on the Nightscapes section as well.
Thanks! Yeah the skies here are pretty good. They're a lot better when the bloke over the back fence doesn't have his wretched searchlights blazing like collapsing stars...
Glad to hear it looks reasonably natural. Took a lot of effort to make it look that way!
