Repost - Mt R & Milky W II

Gorgeous image for my tastes Ken. The land and sky look natural and harmonious to me. I don't see any noise. I'm wondering what formula if any you used to calculate your exposure for the sky. I think I'm starting to see a touch of star trails. Not enough to bother me and it may just be my imagination. I haven't tried to do a night image yet and your's are inspiring me to try it. Again - beautiful work.

pat

This is a nice blend with a light enough FG to make it interesting and some nice color in the FG.
I might warm it up a tad?......

This looks great, Ken, seems like a reasonable amount of light on the foreground and lots of fine details in the sky. I also like the hint of light on Mt. Rainer. Is that from the moon? In the larger version, some of the stars seem streaked a bit and others not. That has me thinking that the difference is what the atmospherics optics community calls "scintillation", which means that small warm and cold sections of the atmosphere lead to local blurring.

Nice Ken, love that sky. Sounds like it was a fun night...or morning I should say!

Nice job on this, Ken. I like that there is detail in the foreground, and I love the light on Rainier.

--P

Hello Ken,

While a nice composition, for me the sky and stars are too blue. While it is fine if you specifically want this effect, it bears little to reality as the dark moonless night sky is not blue. The Milky Way has beautiful browns and many emission nebulae in this part of the sky are red and magenta. Most stars are yellow to red in color and we can see those colors in the brighter ones. If well dark adapted with no lights, the Milky Way can look brownish to our eyes (with "normal" vision). There are some blueish white (the hottest) stars, but no actual blue stars. The background night sky is strongly colored from airglow (the same colors as in aurora), and the green airglow is trying to show in your image toward the horizon. For more on the colors of the night sky, please see my article on this subject:
http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/color.of.the.night.sky/
and the next article in the series shows how to process night sky images to maintain those colors if you wish.

Is the light on Mount Rainier that from the light pollution from Puget Sound cities?

Very well done merge of sky and land, especially well done with the trees.

Roger

Really cool shot! My only suggestion would be to reduce the Cyan in it. Feels a little over powering to me.

Thanks for the comments! After revisiting this so often….the saturation began to drag down my enjoyment. I pulled out a lot of the cyan (Thanks Mark) and blues… And got some ‘clear’ thoughts from Roger also. I am thinking this next version has better ‘staying-power’. Ken S