I pulled into a side road and another side road and got out the camera, tripod and head-torch. I set the ISO to 6400, aperture to 2.8 and shutter to 10 seconds. I wanted as short a time as possible to keep the stars sharp. No trails. The trees I lit with a second or two from the head torch to give a more uneven light than I would get from a flash unit.
I tried a few variations of ISO (up to Hi1 which equates to ISO 12800) and exposures down to 5 seconds with and without headtorch.
Post processing mainly involved White Balance, noise reduction and Tone Curve adjustments to separate the black of the sky from the grey of the Milky Way. The first photo is my favorite. There are such a lot of colours up there!
The next 2 are pictures taken without any light on the trees, which I think is loser to how the sky loos when you're out walking the country lanes. Except for the orange glow, which is light pollution, I think. Next time I hope to be far, far away from civilisation.
This was taken two days before. You can see how much more eveident the light pollution is in this one.
