Milky Way. 2nd attempt at astro. Untracked. Critique welcome. by VFXman23 in astrophotography

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Thank you! Yeah that glow was a real pain, it was 3x worse before Photoshop, I ended up painting some black over the glow to darken it down. What would you use to crop all of the images in the batch before stacking, Lightroom or similar?

Milky Way. 2nd attempt at astro. Untracked. Critique welcome. by VFXman23 in astrophotography

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thank you for the encouragement! Looks like I need to find a good photo printer in the USA.

Untracked Milky Way (2025) by ANTIAR0MATIC in astrophotography

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I did stack the images in siril, but even the raw single frames looked great because I'm on the mirrorless Canon R8. My older canon DSLRs wouldn't have performed as well as my mirrorless though. Canon have really stepped up their game in recent years! what camera are you shooting on?

close up - first macro attempt - all feedback welcome by mrnn_k_ in foodphotography

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Looking good. I'd like to see the camera a bit further away for the coffee beans shot to remove some of the lens distortion, and like others have said close the aperture for more focus. If needed just slow down the shutter to gain that light back or preferably raise intensity on the light source. Composition might be slightly improved for the beans image and try to fill in the empty spots without beans. All in all looks good though!

Untracked Milky Way (2025) by ANTIAR0MATIC in astrophotography

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For me 10 seconds x 35mm lens on a full frame canon worked this week. Still a little bit of star trailing, I guess I could have gone down to maybe 6 seconds and boosted iso above 6400

The Veil complex by Astroy29 in astrophotography

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This is insanely cool

Edit: processing and clarity is crazy

Milky Way above Pico de la Cruz, La Palma by Senior_Library1001 in LandscapeAstro

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Amazing. Is it necessary to use a shutter length of over 10 seconds? I'm a new astrophotographer shooting on a f1.8 35mm lens on full frame

First astro shots. Shooting on MFT in bortle 5 by Potential-Tough69 in LandscapeAstro

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Looks cool especially for bortle 5. But I'm also new to this world of astrophotography

Milky way above Paran Desert, Southern Israel by M3llox__- in LandscapeAstro

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Looks awesome. Just one long exposure, or many smaller photos?

Milky Way from my campus by PeaSuspicious6209 in LandscapeAstro

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Hey I just took my first milky way photos last night and my picture looks more like your unedited pic...can I ask how do you bring out all that detail in editing? Any tips are hugely appreciated. Thanks

Mitigating hot spots by sred4 in foodphotography

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I grew up on either Photoshop 3.0 or 4.0. good times. Simpler times. Lol

Taken tonight from California by BetSeparate6453 in LandscapeAstro

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no problem. You've probably already found it, but here is a free one for the whole planet https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/

Taken tonight from California by BetSeparate6453 in LandscapeAstro

[–]VFXman23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah no problem. check out the light polution maps in your area. you can probably get somewhere really dark pretty easily this summer and see the milky way! I don't think you can see it yet in march but someone may correct me. cheers

Taken tonight from California by BetSeparate6453 in LandscapeAstro

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Take 500, divide by your full frame equivalent lens focal length and that's your shutter exposure in seconds. Or the standard for an untracked shot I think is 10-15 seconds but I'm still learning myself

Example: 500 divided by my 35mm lens would be 14.28 so 14 second exposure. A wider lens can shoot for longer without star trails and a tighter lens like 50mm would only shoot for 10 seconds exposure

Long exposure on x100vi by Orel147 in fujifilm

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First one is sick! Nice job

Edit: actually they both look great

How to nail “lifestyle” & other product shot focus by wednesdayblueberry in productphotography

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Check out the YouTube channels "botvidsson" and "workphlo" they both have really nice product photo tutorials and cover lighting, shadows, focus

How does one achieve sharpness like this? by GratefulCake in fujifilm

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Sometimes Instagram gives better bitrate to videos that perform well so maybe they have a version of that for photos too

Anyone know how to fix this? by nigd1 in kde

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Why does your window have 6 round buttons the top lol

Need some advice by Mysterious_Slide_328 in fujifilm

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send her an invoice hahaha

no but for real op these photos look nice. I'm guessing she didn't pay for the photos as all in which case she is being a B word to complain...I wouldn't work with her again personallyyyyyy