Milky Way

I have tried to shoot the Milky down south in Alabama before with no luck whatsoever in the past. I had great luck with dark skies in Utah a while back though. I decided I would try again since I have a little more knowledge and a D750. Went out and shot about a hour and a half northeast of where I live. Here is what I got.

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Lawrence

Senior Member
Excellent shots Don.
I will be going out tomorrow night to try this for the first time ever and have no idea what settings to use so your EXIF is helpful
 

RobHD

Senior Member
ok ill give ya that :) , thats just stunning, love the cloud layers and LP shining up thne the milky way heading off into the night
 
ok ill give ya that :) , thats just stunning, love the cloud layers and LP shining up thne the milky way heading off into the night

Thank you. When my friend and I arrived around 9:30 or so there was not a cloud in the sky so we looked around for a few minutes and then went back to the car to get all our gear out and set up. Walked back to the spot we had picked and not a star ws was to be seen. Clouds had moved in the 15 minutes since we got there. Got some great cloud shots and a few other shots of some camp sites on a spit of land across from us with great reflections in the water. Then the clouds started to clear so we just waited. Normally the clouds at the bottom would have bothered me but I just darken them a bit in post and made it what I thought would be a good base for the Milky Way.

After post I see a few things I can do better in shooting so will be going back to this spot to try again. I had to increase exposure a bit more than I liked in post so I think I will go back and increase my exposure by a stop and then 2 stops and see what it looks like. I always try to see what I can do better and at least this spot is not that far a drive.
 
It was exactly a year ago when I was in Utah on vacation shooting and tried to shoot the Milky Way for the first time. I did not process or publish this shot last year but am going back and looking at what I did exactly 1 year ago and picking a single photo I did not pick last year and processing it now. Here is my Milky Way shot from Dead Horse Point.

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