From the same location I talked last time here is another shot of milky way in the suggestive village of Rocca Calascio
To take this shot I moved to the other side of the ruin in order to capture the door illuminated by the light of the castle during the night. Through a series of shots I managed to decrease the strong brightness that characterized the door due to the long exposure necessary to capture the milky way
I followed the same editing steps of the previous post capturing several exposures in order to generate the output image as I had imagined. So I captured some shots with and without the subject and another with higher ISO to make the milky way better visible
WORKFLOW EXPLANATION
I started stacking all the images into Photoshop and worked with smart object and median, in order to obtain a noise free base shot. Nevertheless, after this process the milky way loses some details, for this I used another exposure captured to work specifically on milky way on Camera Raw. With this shot I made the milky way look its best, then with a layer mask I masked the milky way treated on the image obtained in median
After this I used another exposure to paste inside the subject in the frame, in fact I used all separate shots to make this kind of image in order to obtain the best clean result
With the final image obtained I started working on the lights and on the shadows with the help of luminosity masks selectively. With dodge and burn I pushed up brightness and colours on the milky way, than I darkened some part of the foreground to create a more concentrated focus in the center
As latest steps I fixed colours and general luminosity, warming some highlights and making a more uniform look with the lights of the horizon
I hope you will find this usefull. I like to ear this from you!
TECNHNICAL STUFF
Camera: Nikon D-850
Nikon 14-24 f/2,8 (used at 14mm)
Image Stack Median
ISO: 5000 at f/2,8
Software: Photoshop CC2021
Plugin: TTS Pro 2.0
