Critique wanted Rising Milkyway and the Chapel

wonderful image mamba8606, with great colours and lovely detail in the milky way core.
I notice a bit of star trailing though, which could be from the exposure being slightly too long for the lens used (not sure what lens you have used though).
You could try and drop the exposure time slightly and up the ISO a little to manage that.
A good rule of thumb is the 500 rule, where you divide 500 by the focal length of the lens, to get the shooting time in seconds and then subtract 5 or 10 seconds from that result to ensure pin point stars.

Andy Smith said:

wonderful image mamba8606, with great colours and lovely detail in the milky way core.
I notice a bit of star trailing though, which could be from the exposure being slightly too long for the lens used (not sure what lens you have used though).
You could try and drop the exposure time slightly and up the ISO a little to manage that.
A good rule of thumb is the 500 rule, where you divide 500 by the focal length of the lens, to get the shooting time in seconds and then subtract 5 or 10 seconds from that result to ensure pin point stars.

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Hey Andy
Thank u very much for your nice feedback... Right, i forgot to mention my equiptment i used... It was taken by my Sony a7iii with the 24mm 1.4 from Sony.
I know about the 500 Rule - anyway worth mention it. With the choosen exposuretime of 15 Sec and the 24mm i'm on the pretty save side avoiding startrailing.
But i know what u mean... It actually would be better for me, blame my over exposuretime. But unfortunately, this is the Result of not proper align the picturres by blending it.
What do u think about brighten up the Chapel a bit more? Is it irritating, haveing the Roof(gable?) almost in line with the background (or would it be ok, if the Chapel would stand out more)?
I went there again, last Week, getting the Chapel a bit better in frame (lower ISO, more Pictures for blending and reduce Hot Pixels and stuff like this). Didn't edit a final Picture of it yet, but i'll do so.

mamba8606 said:

What do u think about brighten up the Chapel a bit more? Is it irritating, haveing the Roof(gable?) almost in line with the background (or would it be ok, if the Chapel would stand out more)?
I went there again, last Week, getting the Chapel a bit better in frame (lower ISO, more Pictures for blending and reduce Hot Pixels and stuff like this). Didn't edit a final Picture of it yet, but i'll do so.

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Yes 15 secs with a 24mm should be well on the safe side.
I personally think the chapel is lit ok, maybe a little bit of light painting on the main door and windows using a torch would add a great touch. Maybe move slightly left also, and get the whole of the cross in the image that is hanging in the doorway.
And to be honest I didn't notice the roof being in line with the treeline, but now you mention it, yes I cannot unsee that and it is irritating It would be better moved above the treeline I think.

Beautiful photo. I want to do something like this for a long time but too much light were i live.

Andy Smith said:

Yes 15 secs with a 24mm should be well on the safe side.
I personally think the chapel is lit ok, maybe a little bit of light painting on the main door and windows using a torch would add a great touch. Maybe move slightly left also, and get the whole of the cross in the image that is hanging in the doorway.
And to be honest I didn't notice the roof being in line with the treeline, but now you mention it, yes I cannot unsee that and it is irritating It would be better moved above the treeline I think.

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hahaha, once you saw it, you can't undo it and it's impossible to trick you're mind anymore... ;-) definitly i had to change the postition next Time... I thought about lightpainting it for a bit / haven't done it, can't tell how i would look like... But for sure, i'll try it next time...
thank you for your input and your opinion 👍