i definitely prefer the first one (20s, no astrotracer), though i wouldn't know if it would print well...
i have a samyang 14/2.8 which i bought with the intention of doing widefield astro photography during my trek in the himalayas last year. at such high altitudes and with almost no light pollution the stars/milky way are a sight to see. unfortunately, during our trek last year we had unseasonal snowfall almost every day of the trek and the skies were greyed out. down where i live, between june and september is the ideal time for this but that's when the monsoon is active. or i am just too lazy...i plan to get down to it soon enough and i will be happy if i can get the kind of results you get.... On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:04:15 -0700 Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > I should have been getting other things done, but I got side tracked, > trying to figure out ways to smooth the horizon discontinuity. > > All of them shot with the Rokinon 24/1.4 on K-1 from the same > location. > > I was experimenting with cropping most of the photos to just above or > just below the horizon so that lightroom wouldn't get the stars right > but have an ugly step in the horizon. I was mostly able to get it to > work and cleaned things up with the clone tool. The horizon being a > bit blurry from the astrotracer sort of helped. At some point I'll > need to learn lightroom. > > What I think that I need to do in the future is first off, quickly > shoot horizontal frames across the horizon to get a good clean set of > photos that include the horizon with minimal star motion. Then I > need to shoot my panorama set with each of the other frames either > above, or below, the horizon, so the horizon is in only one set of > photos. > > I should also probably work on getting a good set of perimeter shots, > particularly the vertical edges so that I have good frames for beyond > the whole area I want to shoot. > > Here are my three favorites of my panos. Suggestions of how to > improve them and which one to print are much appreciated: > > 20 seconds, no astrotracer, 4x5 aspect ratio > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/29744871447/in/album-72157701017161594/ > > 20 seconds with astrotracer, 4x5 aspect ratio > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/29746566107/in/album-72157701017161594/ > > 40 seconds with astrotracer square crop > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/42851175660/in/album-72157701017161594/ > > > > set of these three: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157701017161594 > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
