Article · BBC Sky at Night Magazine
How to combine the night sky with a foreground landscape to make a stunning starry night photo
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2025
About this lesson
Shows how to blend a tracked or stacked sky with a separate foreground exposure in layers, aligning frames and masking the horizon.
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