MT.Chokai Night
I was alone in this star full of night near the mount Chokai
which I climbed on the same day.
It was completely dark in the sky and need to conbine 30sec x 6shots ISO 1000 to show the far beech forest and details of the sinking milkyway.

A small improved version of same photo has republished after new selection process , following the comments I recived.
I hope it will be more satisfactory than before.
But please do not be too picky for minor defects
instead please pursuit what makes this different.

The real key of of this shot I think is noiseless smoothness
and pin hole size star sharpness I have ever made.
Like viewing the bottom sand under crystal clear fountain.
Large sized exagerated stars made through popular diffusion filter is not always the major key for silent realistic night sky image.
I will never use these fileters to stand close to the reality.

Noisy single shot works can not show the detailed color
stracture of milkyway but intentionally tend to be
gray colored overall to hide the prominent color noise.
That is why I combined the multipul shots to improve quality.

I hope you will find these differences in my works.
Thank you.
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Saleh Kazemi 7 months ago
Wow!!!
peny setiadi 7 months ago
cant say a word! beautiful
Fiorenzo Carozzi 7 months ago
your previous photos are excellent.Whereas the milky way is extraordinary, in my opinion looking this picture the curators were inattentive, because of the strange artefact/corrections with phs in the lower left part, mentioned by Benjamin.... :-)
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YASUAKI SEGAWA  Hello
I think that part is also not good if seen with brighter monitor setting beyound my usual caribration level.
I sometime make a correction for dotted airplane trail using unaffected clean shot layer but did not pay a careful attention for the subtle brightness change on the layer boundary this time, I am afraid.
I will soon upload another improved shots.
Your advise is always welcomed.
Cristian Rusu 7 months ago
excellent
Jim Gajewski 7 months ago
What an impressive shot! Congrats!
Doug Solis 7 months ago
Love this milky way shot.
Amadeusz Starzak 7 months ago
unbelievable
I would love seeing you make a time-lapse!
saeedpix 7 months ago
Splendid view !
KPK 7 months ago
Stunning!
Risquillo 7 months ago
This is great!
Amalia Marmol 7 months ago
Amazing night!
Amalia Marmol 7 months ago
Amazing!
Aurora Pintore 7 months ago
WONDERFUL PHOTO !!!
Jacob Tuinenga 7 months ago
Beautiful lighted result.
Excellent work.
Jacobo Fraga 7 months ago
What a beautiful starry sky. Good use of the hi-ISO.
Benjamin Jung 7 months ago
Although the Milky Way looks great here, I'm a bit surprised that his one got published. There is a strange artifact in the sky on the lower left (horizontal split) and strong posterization in the landscape (the bright green shouldn't be there, I think). This one is not at the same level as your other astrophotography shots, which are superb.
YASUAKI SEGAWA  Hello Benjamin
Please refer to my comment to Fiorenzo.
I sometime replace the spoiled ugly part using the clean layers, this time was to replace airplane dotted line which I think is necessary to make my work pleasant and most star shooting people do.
The brightness is different in accordance with the number of shots combined and I
should be more careful for that fact when I replaced it.

As for forest I do not want to be bright and unevenly lit .
This is caused mainly from leaking light from a nearby water power station.
As for my personal policy I want to leave the surface as it is.
For the color I don?t think this is too strong under this level of long time exposure with external light.
If you enhance a color saturation of the milkyway you will also see the increase on the surface color which is also my fun.
Night is not black and monotonous world.
Dark black colored surface with silhouette is something I really don?t like
Which I think is too conservative and common way to show night images in old days.
Iin the time of digital photography which can show the world above our eye sensitivity level
we should be a lot more creative and challenging.
david keochkerian 7 months ago
Beautiful! Great work!
Hervé Loire 7 months ago
that is so impressive ! fantastic work !
Martin Marcisovsky 7 months ago
amazing image,really great
Petre 7 months ago
Indeed very nice;n
Did you use a device to compensate the movement of the stars ?
YASUAKI SEGAWA  A very small handy size euatorial mount used with tripod on this shot.
So no star movment at all with original round shape stars are there.
Andi Abdul Halil 7 months ago
great and amazing...
Allan Wallberg 7 months ago
Beautiful !
ali araghi 7 months ago
nice
Adnan Khan 7 months ago
Amazing shot !
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