I should have been getting other things done, but I got side tracked,
trying to figure out ways to smooth the horizon discontinuity.
All of them shot with the Rokinon 24/1.4 on K-1 from the same location.
I was experimenting with cropping most of the photos to just above or
just below the horizon so that lightroom wouldn't get the stars right
but have an ugly step in the horizon. I was mostly able to get it to
work and cleaned things up with the clone tool. The horizon being a bit
blurry from the astrotracer sort of helped. At some point I'll need to
learn lightroom.
What I think that I need to do in the future is first off, quickly shoot
horizontal frames across the horizon to get a good clean set of photos
that include the horizon with minimal star motion. Then I need to shoot
my panorama set with each of the other frames either above, or below,
the horizon, so the horizon is in only one set of photos.
I should also probably work on getting a good set of perimeter shots,
particularly the vertical edges so that I have good frames for beyond
the whole area I want to shoot.
Here are my three favorites of my panos. Suggestions of how to improve
them and which one to print are much appreciated:
20 seconds, no astrotracer, 4x5 aspect ratio
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/29744871447/in/album-72157701017161594/
20 seconds with astrotracer, 4x5 aspect ratio
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/29746566107/in/album-72157701017161594/
40 seconds with astrotracer square crop
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/42851175660/in/album-72157701017161594/
set of these three:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157701017161594
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157612824732477/
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