New Mexico skies captured by Z 8 / Fisheye
I was raised staring at the stars! Hard to remember a summer’s night when I was young that the blanket wasn’t thrown on the ground and we were on top of it watching the heavens above. Shooting stars, satellites, constellations and of course those twinkling lights then and now still grab my imagination. With the release of Photoshop 2024 and ACR 16, I went looking on the web to see if there was a better way of finishing the heavenly bodies I photographed last night from our photographic workshop on the Philmont Scout Ranch. Did you know there are about as many ways on the web to finish star photographs as there are stars in the sky? That really isn’t surprising as they do bring out the romantic in the most stoic person. That means there is no right or wrong to how you share your heavens because, that’s how they touch you and you want to share them. There is simply nothing more beautiful then the stars above!