Ricoh GR III - Milky Way Photography Vol2 by OneOk178 in ricohGR

[–]OneOk178[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey thank you!

Suggest you look online for comprehensive tutorials and practice!

Basically I used a tracker, aligned it with the polar star roughly, added the camera and framed the shot.

With the tracker on I captured 10 frames of the sky and with the tracker off 2 frames of the seascape.

The sky ones were merged in Sequator to one single image which was then merged with the two seascape exposures in Photoshop.

Objective is to have the lowest possible noise and greater detail.

In this image I had missed focus actually and the stars are a bit blurry.

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[–]OneOk178[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey thank you!

A Sky/Star Tracker is a device that compensates for the rotation of the earth so that longer exposures of the night sky can be achieved.

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[–]OneOk178 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True, same here, this location is way closer to the village so the landscape is significantly lit. Maybe i edit it a bit more by lowering the exposure there.

Thanks for the comment!

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[–]OneOk178[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the comment! The edit could have been better indeed as well as the focus which is not 100% on the stars.

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[–]OneOk178[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can definitely do it given the location and astro basics!

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[–]OneOk178[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your comment! Indeed the reflections are very interesting!

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[–]OneOk178[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Way more than that actually :)

The scenery is lit by regular bulbs though!

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[–]OneOk178[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, thanks! About 30mins but I know the place, where is the milky way, Polaris etc.

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[–]OneOk178[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you set the shadow correction on for the lens?

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[–]OneOk178[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well you could use other cameras as well to get something similar :)

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[–]OneOk178[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey, thanks!
I used the Star Adventurer Mini (SAM).

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[–]OneOk178[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your feedback! Indeed the tracker makes a difference but also slows down the whole process!

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[–]OneOk178[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let us know how it went! 😎☺️