PrettyTiny Film Company Pic A Week *2019* (#.....52!! Dec. 24)

[Alliecat]

Wow, gorgeous sky! And I love that your dolls have pjs!

Hehehe....  I found them on eBay.  I have some similar purple ones so that was my first entry in "Dress Like Your Doll" at PUDDLE.  Yep, onstage in front of 160 people in my jammies  The story was that Dawn & I were both jetlagged after a long journey from Canada

That is amazing! That deserves an award!

Oh my  Thank you so much!

Oh, that is just such a beautiful shot. Like, seriously, all the applause to you.

Wow, that's an awesome photo!  And this is just the first attempt?

Thank you, everybody!  
Now I want to do some more... maybe stargazing at the beach....???

Oh my gosh! This is wonderful!
I live a few miles from a so-called "Dark Sky" area, but it looks NOTHING like this! Even on the darkest, clearest nights, there is light and haze on the horizon from the towns 50 miles away....
What was the length of this ex-posure? And what was the half-awake brainstorm idea you came up with to make this work?

So beautiful! How did you deal with ex³position? Did you take the photo in RAW format?

Euh....  [has to admit to having no clue about RAW]
Thank you guys!
davidd, keep in mind that on a long ex.posure, there is time for more stars to "burn in" than you can see with the naked eye.  And some of this unfortunately is noise and grain.  BUT we can see the Milky Way pretty well, any clear night, and wonderfully so with the power out.
It's actually brilliantly simple; just requires finesse with timing and lighting.
30 seconds at 3.5/1600 ISO, which is the best I can do with the K-x, without going to "bulb" which has its own issues...  I acutely miss the simplicity of night-sky photos on my wonderful ol' K1000.  I started with focus on the dolls (f 3.5 is why they're not both sharp); light-painted them with a mini mag-lite half covered in my hand, then zoomed focus to infinity for the rest of the ex.posure.  Dunno why I didn't think of that before.
( >sigh< Now imma have to kill you both )
Of course on the K1000 I could've changed the aperture during the ex.posure too and made the dolls sharper.  Without having to go through multiple "mode" screens; auwe!  
I'll have to try again with the dolls in the same plane so they're both in better focus, which requires a different alignment with the background.
Actually I'd like to see someone else try this, and see what you get.