Tuhin Das, PPSA
About the Image(s)
Location: Lower Falls, Yellowstone National Park
Deion: I had a wonderful national parks trip (Grand Teton, Yellowstone & Glacier) in month of May'19. This one is from Yellowstone obviously. Very famous & crowded tourist spot (who have visited should know that) but only during sunlight, NOT under the bright stars and pitch black surroundings.
So usually I went there at 3:45 am and the shoot was done by 4:30 am and gradually dawn was approaching. You can see the level of noise mostly near the waterfall. Yeah that's because of the limitation of crop sensor and heavy shadow pull in post production.
Disclaimer - This is not a single shot. I took 10 exposures (ISO 8000, F2.8, 11mm FL, 10 sec) of the sky. And 4 exposures (ISO 1600, F2.8, 11mm FL, 4 mins) for the canyon. Then blended them all together in post production to reduce the noise level and hot pixels. I know everybody will be mad at me saying that this is not ethics of landscape photography. But sorry to say respected fellow photographers, almost 70-80% of the astro photographers use the same technique to produce high quality night images. Obviously they use lots of expensive and way way better gears than I can afford. I don't do it for food, I do it as a hobby.
P.S. - According to PhotoPills, the MW core will be neck to neck close