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StephenandClaire OP t1_iw8d67k wrote

Reply to comment by r3dditalg0sucks in 4am at Durdle Door, Dorset, UK [1500x1000] [OC] by StephenandClaire

It’s highly edited, but working with the information the camera captured. It’s certainly didn’t come out of camera looking like that 😂

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r3dditalg0sucks t1_iw8dfi3 wrote

Ahhhh ok. I was going to say, I highly doubt anywhere in the UK would be dark enough to see a sky like that. Beautiful none the less.

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StephenandClaire OP t1_iw8e5ig wrote

Well the information in the image was all captured at Durdle Door. None of it is fake, just 'enhanced'.

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r3dditalg0sucks t1_iw8edza wrote

I wish we could see the night sky like that. I'd spend hours lost in the wonderment

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Licentiousalsatian t1_iw9dvzw wrote

It's not as pronounced as this but there are few dark spots in the UK. The Dorset coast is good but too close to Poole and Weymouth for really clear skies, you need to go down Cornwall way for those.

Mid Wales and Northumbria are some of the best I've seen.

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DrMangosteen t1_iw9gikv wrote

I was at End of the Road festival in Dorset and the first night they hadn't sorted the campsite lights. Thats the most stars I've ever seen it was incredible

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Licentiousalsatian t1_iwbdmgt wrote

I used to live in Dorset and now in a city. The difference is unbelievable.

Mid Wales is the most stars I've ever seen. Jupiter and Saturn were in alignment and so bright you could see their colours.

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Protectorsoftman t1_iw8wjwx wrote

If I had to guess, I'd say you took pictures of the landscape and sky separately, enhanced them, then overlayed the landscape onto the sky?

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ManikShamanik t1_iwb9c8e wrote

Then you would be very, very wrong. Durdle Door is very much dark enough to see the full expanse of the Milky Way. As are the North York Moors, the Shetlands, the Orkneys, the Scilly Isles (much of Cornwall in fact), Bodmin Moor, Snowdonia, the Cairngorms, Exmoor, Dartmoor, the Brecon Beacons, the Lake District (which has a dark sky festival every year), the Peak District, the South Downs

There are, in fact, several Dark Sky festivals around the UK annually

  • Cumbria (Lake District, 28th October - 12th November this year)
  • South Downs (4th - 17th February (the South Downs National Park was designated an International Dark Sky Place (of which there are only 20) in 2016)
  • Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors (10th - 26th February 2023)
  • Wales Dark Sky Week (17th - 26th February in the Brecon Beacons, Snowdonia and Pembrokeshire Coast National Parks)
  • Northumberland Dark Skies Festival (TBC) - the first designated International Dark Sky Place in England.
  • Exmoor (every October)

https://www.darkskiesnationalparks.org.uk

The UK has two International Dark Sky National Parks (Northumberland National Park and the Elan Valley National Park in Powys, mid-Wales).

We also have four International Dark Sky Reserves (Brecon Beacons National Park, South Wales, Exmoor National Park, Devon, Moore's Reserve, South Downs, and Snowdonia National Park in North Wales).

Additionally Coll, in the Inner Hebrides in Scotland, Moffatt, Dumfries & Galloway, and Sark in the Channel Islands are designated International Dark Sky Communities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Dark-Sky_Association

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r3dditalg0sucks t1_iwb9h18 wrote

>Then you would be very, very wrong.

The person who took the photo literally said they had to enhance it. So nope. I was right.

Talk about r/confidentlyincorrect

Edit:

Dumbass below. Op literally said "Well the information in the image was all captured at Durdle Door. None of it is fake, just 'enhanced'."

But I guess you know better 👌

That's ignoring the fact changing the colour overall would be because you cannot see it like that with your eyes. Just like I said.

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costryme t1_iwbfdi5 wrote

No, it just means you don't understand how photography works. Enhancing in this case very clearly means bringing together the sky photo + the Door/beach photo (those 2 are not the same exposure at all), masking it correctly, working on the colours overall, etc.

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ttystikk t1_iw9c7q1 wrote

You've made quite a picture. Details on how you did it?

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thebeardofbeards t1_iwb405c wrote

Can you see the Milky Way with the naked eye from that spot? I live in Poole, seeing the Milky Way is on my bucket list.

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StephenandClaire OP t1_iwb5nzy wrote

You can - the best time is after midnight in the height of summer (no clouds, no moon, low humidity conditions), but it's visible through March to October, in the east early in the year, west later, 4am in the spring, as soon as night falls in the autumn.

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