I woke up to take the dog out at 5:00am this morning, and saw that the sky was clear. Sirius and Jupiter were blazing in the crisp, alarmingly cool air. It's been raining for the past few days, so I was super excited to get outside and get some photos.
I started on the balcony with a wide angle shot of the Orion neighborhood (from Sirius to the Pleiades). I tried a bunch of different settings to see if I could stumble upon something cool, or find a way to increase the number of stars without adding to the light pollution. Here's the final result...
![orion night sky 18mm orion night sky 18mm](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhViIbo-9rvRZsQjsZUa3Ez-wwtXLuaicC6fkw5jhlgN_vRech3oct4TUp0T-6EvbMtteioD4fJA-y9PIW0tsWcV52u9Yw_WC6HxVY6UWrORTxlUm_A3z9qxrZvZZewhdw29MRMDg-aBX89/s400/winterskynovember.jpg) |
Final result with adjustments in Adobe Camera RAW |
Below is the same photo pre-adjustments in Adobe Camera RAW. Notice the prevalence of sky glow and washed out stars. At least the stars were sharp, unlike the shot I took with the aperture wide open.Check out the results from a variety of settings...
![orion and night sky f/4.5 orion and night sky f/4.5](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDaG0BFTBl0Z6risKz8oBoTa7Y2jejuU9nL65jy5Jk-1n7IfCXmy6QYkx25jmncDUqaFsiz0q1GuVbYLT8Aljxg-VDed12GYaiTAkYWhNjU-uADUfZwbQcMeMT6qbK_JQxRx2BDwP6IJjg/s400/f4-5+15s+800+18mm.jpg) |
Same photo as above, f/4.5, 15 sec, ISO 800, 18mm unprocessed |
![adobe camera raw remove sky glow adobe camera raw remove sky glow](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTv_9oOe10_vub87oOT99SyoztUfLcYk5HV0PVWA0oebFn7dy7z80ccwPaQM0GOg91uh7J8loFfCgpAj_9Z3zXrEn109lazjkF00TnNVEgFqSpwsYB6GSbGEF2uE5mBoSuqKkL096mGIQw/s400/winterskyedit.png) |
Screen shot of Adobe Camera RAW (check the settings on the right if you want to do something similar) |
![night sky f/3.5 night sky f/3.5](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDna01r6Hqiy4X2GgEFgtGr5pERW__5n3Ufa7h7r88FY1QZYtLLk9Fuvdr3LJk-e6m8VlBXm-Rhbxle-ftBKNtwcRHfiL0Badq_8Zv5iMwm0yEPjq0FNUgXwYZZ_52twjs1HUlgFyMIUYI/s400/f3-5+15s+800+18mm.jpg) |
Trying the same scene with different settings, f/3.5, 15 sec, ISO 800, 18mm (wide open aperture isn't as sharp) |
![stars f-stop f/11 stars f-stop f/11](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMfiW0RzI_HwU2EE2BkES_TeiqHEBr2obZRFl3U9t7hNyzIeBctm6wT4ov_PbEV1xSEIdzGa6XLs8UOk-_W4xaoZsuX6OpJD7fhBvPAbFv4MGzne78QyuHX8tfBSyvoto8Ay1Xwmq8SqQR/s400/f11+15s+1600+18mm.jpg) |
Trying the same scene with different settings, f/11, 15 sec, ISO 1600, 18mm (very sharp but not much light coming in) |
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