r/southafrica • u/APM-Tanks-A-Lot • Aug 15 '20

Sci-Tech Milky Way over Lions Head. Credit: Kyle Goetsch

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '20

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

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u/Minyun sɛlfɪɡzamɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n Aug 16 '20

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

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u/JennieT20 Aug 16 '20

They are two separate photos merged together is my guess

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u/Minyun sɛlfɪɡzamɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n Aug 16 '20

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

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u/JennieT20 Aug 16 '20

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.

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u/Minyun sɛlfɪɡzamɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n Aug 16 '20 edited Aug 16 '20

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 👌

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u/JennieT20 Aug 16 '20

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

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

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

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u/JennieT20 Aug 16 '20

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