I know a thing or two about photo editing myself. The most important thing being that it's highly subjective, and the lines between "right" and "wrong" are very often very blurred.

Thanks 🙏🙏

Haha. Thanks 🙏

This guy knows a thing or two about photo editing!

It can't be. There's not enough trash or a homeless guy's sleeping bag

Yes, it's a beautiful picture. I used to live there. I watched thousands of acres of that pretty forest destroyed.

Things are screwed when one is called sanctimonious for pointing out a simple truth and fact.

But hey, screw the Earth and all the animals... We've got some Wine to drink... Plenty Profit$ to make.

Oh, and Save the Rainforest... Lol

Yeah I've been a lot of places, but the is no more beautiful and peaceful place on the planet. I live in Enterprise so I am about an hour and a half from the campground....

lol be like "that doesn't look like the sc mountains..."

I live about an hour's drive away.

Pictures never do us justice. You have to see the Pacific NW in person...

Interesting, thanks for the explanation. Probably the brush was a bit of an overkill, because I said that they look fake, not that they are fake. And again, I love the photo otherwise.

Yeah. Forest fires. I have ruined them. My bad.

It better look like that when I'm there in May.

I bet you can ruin anything huh?

People dying is natural, too. The stench of rotting bodies wafting through a valley is natural, too. Not many people consider it porn.

I’d find a stranger in those Alps any day.

No, Karen, we shan't. I don't own a vineyard, nor do I speak on behalf of Earth's wine-drinking populace. I'm sorry if agriculture triggers you - please feel free to argue your sanctimonious cause with someone who has an interest in this debate. All I did was post a picture (of unspoiled land, no less).

It's actually just a natural aspect of any forest, fires happen, and in no way is it like a snuff film. sheesh

Exposure time is 30 secs. At about 45mm focal length there are definitely trails. The stars are in the raw file, I just made each of them brighter with a brush.

Edit: no noise reduction applied

Zoom in, they're there. I do night photography so I know what to look for. I'd guess 2-5 second exposure.

There were multiple small lightning fires across the canyon in Idaho....

“Why do they call it moonlight valley?”

This pic:

I pause and wonder why the earth burning would be something you'd put on Earth Porn. It's porn in the same way that snuff films are porn. I don't get it.

They don't have long exposure trails, because a) they don't, and b) the exposure is clearly not long enough for stars to have them. Also, I'm sure the OP could have defended that point themselves if they felt it was unfair. But that's the only gripe I have with this photograph, which is otherwise fantastic.

I think the star issue is due to using too much noise reduction which deletes the dim stars. They're clearly not fake since they have realistic long exposure trails.

Beautiful location and a great capture on top of it! That's a very nice photo.