*** The Photography Thread ***

[Mother Goose]

That's bad ass! Did you combine shots? Or was it just one long ass exposure?

[JustSomeDude]

That's bad ass! Did you combine shots? Or was it just one long ass exposure?

Thanks MG!

I did combine shots, since (in my opinion) it's a little easier to work that way. But photographers debate this issue to death (stacking vs. single long exposure). One downside to stacking shorter duration exposures is that you don't get to use as small of an aperture as you would with longer exposures (which is a huge help when dealing with the difficulties of nighttime focus). But there are far more options available in post when creating a stack of numerous images.

This specific photo was generated with 65 stacked exposures: 30s each, on a 3 second interval. So basically the equivalent of a 36 minute exposure. This actually has no post editing done to it yet - it was just my first pass to see how it looked after downloading the RAW files off my card. I am planning on going back to pull out the airplane lights, and maybe boost the colors/saturation a bit. We'll see.