Sunday, October 21, 2012

My first attempt at photographing the milky way (From death valley)

The sky was just stunning and the photos obviously do no justice.. But it was still encouraging that at least a small fraction of the stars we saw could be captured in the photograph, and there is a mild fuzz showing the milky way..








And then I tried to photoshop a few pictures using a very basic tutorial listed here: http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-shoot-the-night-sky-introduction-to-astrophotography

And these were the results:



I don't like them that much - I wish the results were subtler edits of the originals, and didn't have this 'redness' in the photos. But I guess that this at least means that I will start taking more pictures.