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Bring On the Night

            This picture regarded a lot of effort. First, I took series of shots at dawn with different exposure values. I selected 3 of them, merged and edited them in Lightroom with different adjustments for the mountain landscape and the sky. 90 minutes later it was completely dark, so I could take further shots with the starry sky but an absolutely black foreground. The most difficult part was masking the stars in photoshop without luminancw noise. It took some manual corrections to remove that noise, even when I already used the denoise function with modest strength.
The first selections of the stars were not bad but I tried to improve it. Finally I had a selection which was looking good. After copying the stars into the dawn picture, they were less shining so I added a nother adjustment layer for exposure and finally one for a further gradation curve.
Zugspitze can be seen  in the middle of the picture, in the left half Venus stands still in the evening sky but had already disappeared at the night shot.
   

Taken on: October 30, 2024

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Bernhard Thum

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Camera: LEICA CAMERA AG LEICA Q3, f/2.0, 4 sec, 28mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	LEICA CAMERA AG LEICA Q3
Lens:	SUMMILUX 1:1.7/28 ASPH.
Aperture:	f/2.0
Exposure Time:	4
Focal Length:	28mm
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Manual
Light Source:	Daylight
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 14.0.1 (Macintosh)
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