I don't know anything about photography. I saw this stunning image on my chromecast and I looked it up. Does anyone have any idea if he's using some special lens or photoshop effect?
I would love to see something like that with my own eyes.
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I've seen other photos of lavender fields. They look like that at night. And if he could get the milkyway at the right time of year where it arches over the horizon maybe he could get that shot just as the sun is about to rise. But he's definitely using some kind of lens that makes the tree seem farther away. I know nothing about photography.
As a city boy, I've never seen the Milky Way with my naked eye. Isn't that sad?
Seeing the Milky Way over a lavender field is definitely on my bucket list.
It's a nice photo. It would be a lot of different photos taken with different settings that have been put together on PhotoShop to make it look like that. I wanted to take photos of stars last year, and when I read things to find out how to get nice photos, that's what it said people do. Some stars are added afterwards.
Looks like he's used something that edits images and enhances them. When I uploaded my photo's to a Photography forum someone did that with one of mine and it looked like that (only obviously a different image).
Assuming that is (approximately) what the galaxy actually looks like on a dark night (And I really have no idea) there are ways such photos can be taken. It does require extra processing but it's not necessarily fake..
I'd assume lots of stars like that means a slow shutter speed/long exposure, that could also add to the lighting effects (makes nighttime images brighter). I see a few stars to the upper right that look blurred/like trails rather than spots of light so that might support this theory.
Also some sort of lens that distorts the view...not a fisheye lens, I don't think, but something similar?
And definitely some work done in post-processing (or whatever they call it when you touch up your photos). Maybe addition of a purplish tint?
I don't know if I'd call it doctoring an image, but it's definitely been improved upon.
Editorial:
I've seen so much blatant Photoshopping that I've grown jaded about beautiful pictures. :/ I always find myself looking for hints of forgery rather than just enjoying a piece of artwork. I don't mind if minor improvements are made (like this photo, if it's in fact real), or even if the photographer outright says the image is Photoshopped...it's when they're presented as "real" images, yet they aren't, that I feel fooled. There should be honesty in photography.
He used a wide angle lens at 14mm, this makes the foreground appear larger and the background smaller.
The exposure settings were 13 seconds shutter speed, ISO 100 and f/8.
The wide lens would reduce the apparent star trailing for a 13 second exposure (although 13 seconds isn't too long), I still suspect the stars may have been photographed separately (during the same session) as you usually need to stack star photo's to bring out significant detail. It's not impossible though to get an image of the milky way in a single shot, it would just require some processing to bring out the features of it. The way the daylight interacts with the dark sky though, I'd think the stars were photographed separately, possibly under different camera settings.
This shot was indeed processed in Adobe Photoshop CC (I'd imagine largely colour correction, contrast and shadow/highlight adjustment etc).
It's possibly a composite image with both background and foreground in focus yet camera was at f/8 meaning background and foreground may have been photographed separately and merged into a single image. The stars may have been photographed separately for aforementioned stacking but I've no doubt the photographer shot all that is seen and implemented great skill to achieve this image.
It was shot at around 9pm so you wouldn't have been able to see the yellow glow of the sun below the horizon with the naked eye but the camera was apparently able to pick it up with those settings.
He used a wide angle lens at 14mm, this makes the foreground appear larger and the background smaller.
The exposure settings were 13 seconds shutter speed, ISO 100 and f/8.
The wide lens would reduce the apparent star trailing for a 13 second exposure (although 13 seconds isn't too long), I still suspect the stars may have been photographed separately (during the same session) as you usually need to stack star photo's to bring out significant detail. It's not impossible though to get an image of the milky way in a single shot, it would just require some processing to bring out the features of it. The way the daylight interacts with the dark sky though, I'd think the stars were photographed separately, possibly under different camera settings.
This shot was indeed processed in Adobe Photoshop CC (I'd imagine largely colour correction, contrast and shadow/highlight adjustment etc).
It's possibly a composite image with both background and foreground in focus yet camera was at f/8 meaning background and foreground may have been photographed separately and merged into a single image. The stars may have been photographed separately for aforementioned stacking but I've no doubt the photographer shot all that is seen and implemented great skill to achieve this image.
It was shot at around 9pm so you wouldn't have been able to see the yellow glow of the sun below the horizon with the naked eye but the camera was apparently able to pick it up with those settings.
I get that exact same photo on my Chromecast too, and I also wondered if it was real or not. I've seen other photos on there that I wasn't sure about either. They were very surreal-looking and I thought they were paintings not photos at first. Google better not be lying to me...
I think if its real this would go down as the best photo in modern history and everyone would have it hanging on their walls in their homes, in shops, in offices and people would wear tshirts and other clothing with it on!
I found this great guide to taking pictures of the Milky Way.
Living in the city my entire teenage and adult years I never really knew how or what the Milky Way even looked like to the naked eye. I always caught pictures online of it and eventually decided I wanted to try to capture it for myself. My first time out shooting the Milky Way was up at the Grand Traverse Lighthouse in Northport, Michigan. One of the Darkest locations in Lower Michigan. It was under a moonless sky and I was in awe of its beauty and couldn't believe I was looking at it. As my eyes adjusted to the night sky I saw more and more of it, it was incredible. I was however a little disappointed because it looks nothing like the pictures you see online. It wasn't what I expected. After getting home and looking at the files on my computer I was even more disappointed. Now this was my first time, and knowing what I know now, I would have done things a lot different but even still, with all the shot's I've taken of the Milky Way, it still doesn't look like the pictures you see. I stared to search online about photographing the Milky Way and found the reason to be that most of it is heavily modified digitally.
Could it be a panoramic shot? I found this image and description of how it was taken.
This panorama was created by stitching 11 photographs together with 1/3 to 1/2 of overlap.
I was fortunate enough to have perfect conditions the night I took these photos. Taken around 3:00 AM, there was hardly a cloud in the sky. The town of Santa Rosa (on the right, below horizon) was just far enough away to add warm colors to the sky but not close enough to wash away the milky way with it's light pollution.
The green color (low to the horizon) is not from an aurora but conditions know as "air glow".
The panorama is nearly 180 degrees, facing directly east.
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