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<blockquote data-quote="J-see" data-source="post: 410858" data-attributes="member: 31330">It's nothing really complicated Paul.I took who shots, cam on a tripod. One at ISO 100 30 seconds to get all the environment, as wide open as possible. Then another at a faster shutter speed (to ensure the stars don't trail during ) at a high ISO. I used 10s, f/1.8 at ISO 3200. It depends on your lens what the maximum shutter is.Then I processed those two versions. I try get maximum detail for the stars in the one, the other more towards the environment. Then I loaded them into PS, made several copies of each and started blending them together. When doing that; you can pull more stars out and play with the colors.It's just a matter of using different blending modes and erasing the parts you don't like in a copy, merge them with the other and continue the same process until satisfied. I used quite some different blending modes but from what I remember, difference blending lead to very nice effects.Remember that you can not blend the stars of both different shots since they moved during. Of those only the clouds and landscape can be used. For the stars you use multiple copies of the same shot.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="J-see, post: 410858, member: 31330"] It's nothing really complicated Paul. I took who shots, cam on a tripod. One at ISO 100 30 seconds to get all the environment, as wide open as possible. Then another at a faster shutter speed (to ensure the stars don't trail during ) at a high ISO. I used 10s, f/1.8 at ISO 3200. It depends on your lens what the maximum shutter is. Then I processed those two versions. I try get maximum detail for the stars in the one, the other more towards the environment. Then I loaded them into PS, made several copies of each and started blending them together. When doing that; you can pull more stars out and play with the colors. It's just a matter of using different blending modes and erasing the parts you don't like in a copy, merge them with the other and continue the same process until satisfied. I used quite some different blending modes but from what I remember, difference blending lead to very nice effects. Remember that you can not blend the stars of both different shots since they moved during. Of those only the clouds and landscape can be used. For the stars you use multiple copies of the same shot. [/QUOTE]

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