The Eagle Soars into the Stars!

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Whooooaaaaa!
That's stunning!
Good to see you're back out there.
Thank you for sharing - it's a visual break that exceeds all expectations!! :-D =D>
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Holy sH*&^, Batman! Very nice. And thanks for the education, too. Whodathunk?
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Pretty cool. Your hard work has been well rewarded!
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That's awesome. I really like the shot and despite being a composite, it doesn't look overprocessed to me.
Couple technical questions, if you don't mind. 1) what lens did you use? 2) Photoshop used to splice the two images together? - how hard is that?

As an aside, I came to a realization a couple months ago that most of the "really cool" pics I see are heavily, heavily edited. Which is fine, but it's kind of sad too in a way. I thought there was some sort of magic lens or technique they were using. But at the same time, it's like a hidden beauty is uncovered that can't be seen with the naked eye.

ETA: I just noticed there are two red pixels in your photo. I'm not sure if that was an accident or not on your part.
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Gorgeous image ! PLEASE continue to share others. =D>
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awesome photo...
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Very, very cool
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djkest wrote:That's awesome. I really like the shot and despite being a composite, it doesn't look overprocessed to me.
Couple technical questions, if you don't mind. 1) what lens did you use? 2) Photoshop used to splice the two images together? - how hard is that?

As an aside, I came to a realization a couple months ago that most of the "really cool" pics I see are heavily, heavily edited. Which is fine, but it's kind of sad too in a way. I thought there was some sort of magic lens or technique they were using. But at the same time, it's like a hidden beauty is uncovered that can't be seen with the naked eye.

ETA: I just noticed there are two red pixels in your photo. I'm not sure if that was an accident or not on your part.
Great questions and comments. Yea I noticed that red pixel too. Dead Pixels are very common, almost too common in low light shots. For some reason the image compression accentuated it when submitted. It's certainly there and I should go back and edit.

I like how you call it " hidden beauty." I like to call it Artistic License. These kinds of images are a good test for the photographers post processing skills to either shine or crash and burn. PP these star images are pretty second nature to me because I've focused on bettering my PP skills for almost a decade. It takes time to learn Exposure blending/Layer Masking.

I used a 24mm tilt shift for this image. I use the shift feature all the time to do vertical stitching. This allows to print huge, basically medium format sizes. Tilt shift is just my preference now, however the same aspect ratio can be accomplished with a wide angle lens that goes about 14-15mm.

I use layer masks and the paintbrush when I do virtually all my blending. There's a bunch of other tools and techniques that do the same thing. There's a thousand ways to skin a cat in Photoshop.

Hope that answers your good questions.

Kane
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