Wednesday 15th of August 2007 | Tim Harpur
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So I spent 4 late hours imaging the Milkyway using an 18mm-125mm zoom set to 30mm f/4 – 6 frames – each frame is a set of 3 x 10 minutes at ISO 400 stacked. Then spent 2 days rotating, stitching, blending, colour balancing…. to get the following image (reduced to less than 2% original size):
Personally, unless printing large scale, I prefer the single frame 10 minute exposure using my 10mm-20mm ultra-wide zoom set to 10mm f/4 (image posted a few days ago) – it looks as good on small scale, no blend lines, and saves quite a bit of time.
