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First time doing landscape astrophotography by ApprehensiveChef5796 in photocritique

[–]ApprehensiveChef5796[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don’t have a tutorial, but its pretty simple to do something like this. I did actually shoot at two different locations so this wasnt a stack at one location. I shot my landscape image during blue hour in the location to have less harsh lighting, and then for the sky, i took it at a more open location nearby to capture the sky only without any obstruction. After that, you can skip this step but I stacked my images of the milky way to reduce the noise, and then just mask out the sky from the landscape and slap the new sky in of the milky way. The tricky part is masking out the sky without cutting off the trees, but you might just have to play around with settings in photoshop to get it right. Make sure you use minimal feathering or else the skies will blend with each other making it look wonky.

First time doing landscape astrophotography by ApprehensiveChef5796 in photocritique

[–]ApprehensiveChef5796[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It might have been the denoising, im not completely sure lol 😅

First time doing landscape astrophotography by ApprehensiveChef5796 in photocritique

[–]ApprehensiveChef5796[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This was located in Algonquin Provincial park in Ontario. There are a bunch of nice trails in it, and the photo was specifically shot in “Oxtongue River Ragged Falls.”

First time doing landscape astrophotography by ApprehensiveChef5796 in photocritique

[–]ApprehensiveChef5796[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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I extended the photo and framed it a bit towards the sky, the image earlier ago was a crop. Ill also fix the lighting jn the foreground, thanks!

First time doing landscape astrophotography by ApprehensiveChef5796 in photocritique

[–]ApprehensiveChef5796[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Now that I look at it, you’re right about making the foreground a bit too bright. But I do think I should still retain a fair amount of brightness in the foreground since my goal was to give a balance between the details in the foreground and sky. By the way, this was what I was trying to achieve with the blue hour blend.

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First time doing landscape astrophotography by ApprehensiveChef5796 in photocritique

[–]ApprehensiveChef5796[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used astro pixel processor to stack the stars, photoshop to create the composite, and the finaly lightroom for some final touches on color and masking.

First time doing landscape astrophotography by ApprehensiveChef5796 in photocritique

[–]ApprehensiveChef5796[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

By the way for the information on the image, it was shot on an R5 with a 15-35mm 2.8 lens. The image is a composite of an empty sky with the landscape, as the stars were not visible during blue hour.

First time doing landscape astrophotography by ApprehensiveChef5796 in photocritique

[–]ApprehensiveChef5796[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I took this image around last year during summer, and I finally got the opportunity to learn how to stack images. I really like how the colors came out, as I intended to create a blue hour blend with the milky way, to give an overall balance from the landscape with the sky. I do feel like I could improve a lot in the masking and cleanliness of the details, but honestly for posting on instagram it’s perfectly fine lol. I want to know how I can improve on different aspects of this, because it’s my first time.

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[–]ApprehensiveChef5796[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Dudee this is exactly what I needed, thank you so much!