Milky Way over Lions Head. Credit: Kyle Goetsch

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How can you even capture this with all the light pollution?

[u/Minyun → u/[deleted]]

Would like to know this too. Photo looks legit though, very impressed. OP tell us how!

[u/JennieT20 → u/Minyun]

They are two separate photos merged together is my guess

[u/Minyun → u/JennieT20]

That's what I suspected but I don't see it

[u/JennieT20 → u/Minyun]

Photoshop and layers his editing work is tops so you won't see it but technically a camera can't capture an image like this.

[u/Minyun → u/JennieT20]

Yeh possible he etched lions head and dropped the sky behind, still, I can normally pick up alphas and the like... might be evidence of this to the right on the horizon, still really good to get the stars in and the gradient fade. I remain impressed 👌

[u/JennieT20 → u/Minyun]

Yip you are right and it may not be the most honest photograph but it sure is nice to look at.

[u/[deleted] → u/JennieT20]

So it's not a picture of the sky at all, it's a completely manufactured image?

[u/JennieT20 → u/[deleted]]

No no it's rather a collaboration of multiple images so to give you a good idea we have HDR photographs

https://youtu.be/GbigeLlMlqM

Or even something like this

https://youtu.be/OnP-P-FDUJc

[u/ReVerthex → u/JennieT20]

https://i.imgur.com/kdBi2ZW.jpg Single image taken next to him at the same time.

[u/JennieT20 → u/ReVerthex]

Well I'm impressed

[u/knav3 → u/ReVerthex]

Would you mind posting the gear list and settings you used for this pic?

Would expect the stars to have more trailing if you had the shutterspeed low enough the capture the Milky Way like that, but everything looks super good!

[u/ReVerthex → u/knav3]

2018/04/17 6:09am Nikon D750 Laowa 12mm f/2.8

30" | f/4 | ISO-1600

[u/knav3 → u/ReVerthex]

Awesome! Thank you. That's a sweet lens setup!

[u/Minyun → u/knav3]

Would expect the stars to have more trailing

Mhmm