I'm still learning how to navigate my way around the Hive and today I've set up a Community called Afterdark.
Afterdark is a community to share your night photography and techniques - from beginners all the way through to advanced technical boffins. The idea is to share photos which must be taken from when astronomical twilight begins at night until astronomical twilight ends in the early morning. We accept any images showing any subject and it would be great if you could write a few details about how the image was created.
To kick things off this is a night landscape image with a star trail sequence thrown in:
This shot was taken up Stanage Edge in the Peak District, a very popular spot with tourists from around the region. (Too popular in fact!) At night it's pretty much deserted apart from a few night landscapers like lurking in the shadows! To make this shot, first I lit the millstones using an LED panel until I got the lighting I liked. I then refocussed on the stars and fired a sequence of approx 90 images of 30 seconds each with a 1 second interval between each exposure. Once back at my PC, I opened all the files as a stack in Photoshop and selected Lighten Blend mode. Unfortunately being near Manchester airport, there were many plane trails to clone out!
The effect on NOT removing the plane trails. This is North Leverton Wind Mill in North Nottinghamshire with around an hour's worth of 30 second exposures
Joined.
Thanks for the support @revo. Could have the potential to be quite a busy group once I've got past the initial set up headache of why the logo and background header hasn't changed...