SingAstro

zymon wrote:Your photo on the top of page 4. Is that the tail of Scorpio and maybe M6 and M7 near by. Wow!!

Thanks for the "WOW"!

2 of the same images this time better Processing.
thanks to @Looyaa for sharing with me idea on how to process the shot!




Colorful M8 lingers on the top left of the images.

Dave you are welcome!

For the benefits of all who want to try to shoot the milky way in Singapore, the idea is about boasting the dynamic range of the stacked photo (after curves & levels adjustments). There is a lot of "hidden" data derived from stacking many photos.

wow..great skill! its like the light pollution wasnt even there..

antares2063 wrote:wow..great skill! its like the light pollution wasnt even there..

Light pollution is definitely there....it is cropping the photos that helps to "hide" it

Singapore light polluted sky and the milky way


Taken on 17 July 2013 after moonset
Bidadari Park
Single exposure 80 seconds
Shot with a 8mm fisheye lens
Pentax O-GPS1 Astrotracer function enabled

Original photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/58196275@N04/9309239624/

Gorgeous fish-eye shot and composition! Leave no doubts Milky Way can indeed to be shot in Singapore with the right skills, mindset and determination!

Good effort Looya. You can also consider using monchrome approach which makes colour rendition unnecessary.

Gary wrote:Gorgeous fish-eye shot and composition! Leave no doubts Milky Way can indeed to be shot in Singapore with the right skills, mindset and determination!

Thanks Gary! haha must add in...."as well as willingness to sacrifice a few hours of sleep to wait for sky to clear"

Airconvent wrote:Good effort Looya. You can also consider using monchrome approach which makes colour rendition unnecessary.

Thanks Airconvent for the pointer! A very good point indeed! If you are referring to the fisheye shot, I tried rendering it in monochrome but the noise looks way too distracting. Perhaps due to the fact that that is a single exposure.

So I did a reprocessed version of my first milky way shot at Marina Barrage (the photo on page one of this thread), it does looks good in monochrome. If rendering colors, it shows the presence of the high clouds and distracting color tones. Thanks again for the pointer


Original size photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/58196275@N04/9291261851/

looyaa wrote:

Airconvent wrote:Good effort Looya. You can also consider using monchrome approach which makes colour rendition unnecessary.

Thanks Airconvent for the pointer! A very good point indeed! If you are referring to the fisheye shot, I tried rendering it in monochrome but the noise looks way too distracting. Perhaps due to the fact that that is a single exposure.
So I did a reprocessed version of my first milky way shot at Marina Barrage (the photo on page one of this thread), it does looks good in monochrome. If rendering colors, it shows the presence of the high clouds and distracting color tones. Thanks again for the pointer

Practice makes perfect ,Looyaa. Your conversion is pretty good!

seem like the sky is clearing up tonite(at least thru my kitchen window facing the north)... hopefully it will last as long as it could until morning.