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Cygnus Rising over Egyptian Sands, Ahmed Waddah
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Recently there has been much debate regarding composite Astro landscapes, especially with APOD winning images and ones shared on SKY. So I decided to start a series where same lens used for foreground and sky shot on the same day same tripod position. In this image the foreground was shot during blue hour and sky was shot as soon as upper region of Cygnus was above the horizon. Using my classic stock Nikon D810 with a L-pro clip-in filter to bring out the Ha.

Sky: Nikon D810 - Rokinon 135mm f/2 - SGP
40X180" - 2 Hrs - ISO400 - f2.8
Foreground: D810 - Rokinon 135mm f/2 - f8 - 1/13 - ISO 100

Back to the issue of composites, I personally think as an Astro photographer I can do whatever I want to my final image within certain limits as long as I state facts regarding gear used and times when foreground and sky image was taken and not flip orientation. It's an artistic expression of my vision. When I image the Milkyway I much prefer to shoot it separate from foreground to get the colors of the airglow and have the flexibility to process a cleaner image to work with than with sky images with foreground that make it difficult to produce clean sky images. I will come back next time and shoot the foreground. I use rocks for my tripod sandbags, so in all of my imaging spots there is a pile of rocks that I have been using for over 2 years now, so I am in the same position. 

What do you think? 

cheers

*Update: My friend @Ahmed Wegdan recommended that I tag a couple of our kind judges of Astrobin to get an idea of what they think when it comes to composites, what is ok and what is not ok to do in composites. Is there a certain points that you check when you judge images for IOTD?

@Andy 01@Barry Wilson@Marcel Drechsler

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