This old windmill in Lycke was our house for three wonderful photographic nights during our trip in the Swedish West Coast. Without any doubt this was one of the most peaceful and beautiful places we visited.

"Colourful sunset at Lycke". In camera RAW multiple exposure of 10 shots (with an equivalent exposure time of 5 minutes), captured with Nikon D800, 24-70 mm f/2.8 lens @ 42 mm, 30sec. f/8, ISO 50. Tripod mounted.

"Old Windmill lighted by Full Moon". The Old Windmill lighted by a rising Full Moon. The composition resulted in a vertical Panorama composed of 6 horizontal free noise wide angle images, stitched with PTGui Pro. Each of these horizontal single images is composed of 20 consecutive shots aligned and stacked for noise reduction with Starry Landscape Stacker. Total 120 captures. Captured with Nikon D800, 14-24 mm f/2.8 lens @ 14 mm, 8 sec. f/2.8, ISO 1600. Tripod mounted.

"Full Moon Rising" Time-lapse. Captured with Nikon D800, 14-24 mm f/2.8 lens @ 14 mm, 8 sec, f/2.8, ISO 1600. Tripod mounted.

"Full Moon Rising" Time-lapse. 300 shots captured in intervales of 14" along one hour and ten minutes resulted in a Time-lapse of 12 seconds. Captured with Nikon D800, 14-24 mm f/2.8 lens @ 14 mm, 8 sec. f/2.8, ISO 1600. Tripod mounted.

"Full Moon in Lycke" . Panorama stitched in PTGui Pro and noise reduced with Starry Landscape Stacker. Captured with Nikon D800, 14-24 mm f/2.8 lens @ 15 mm, 8 sec. f/2.8, ISO 1600. Tripod mounted.

"Full Moon in Lycke". Despìte the moonlight, it was even possible to see some of the brightest stars of the northern hemisphere like Vega (Lyre constellation),  Altair, Arcturus and Deneb (Cygnus constellation).

"Full Moon in Lycke" Making-of . Main process  for creating a free noise night panorama of 93 Mpx under an impressive full Moon. The composition resulted in a vertical Panorama composed of 9 vertical free noise wide angle images, stitched with PTGui Pro. Each of these horizontal single images is composed of 20 consecutive shots aligned and stacked for noise reduction with Starry Landscape Stacker. Total 180 captures.

"Lycke’s Old Windmill”. 73M pixels vertical panorama stitched with PTGui Pro in focus for all of the range (focus stacked with Helicon Focus Pro). Captured with Nikon D800, 14-24 mm f/2.8 lens @ 24 mm, 1/100 sec, f/2.8, ISO 100. Tripod mounted.

“Lycke’s Old Windmill” Making-of.  73M pixels vertical panorama in focus for all of the range.

Lycke old windmill (Swedish West Coast)

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