Probably because of THAT, I see these photos as being suspiciously photo shopped.
If you've been around a lot and your eyes have been "woke" all those years, there's a TON o'stuff up there in the memory banks.
Just sayin'
Here’s one of the comments:
Puddin Head2 days ago
Just so you know, you are never, ever going to see these things with your own eyes. These pictures are composites. Firt, you won’t see the Milky Way like that, even if you go to any of the few remaining “dark skies” places left in the U.S. They are made by long exposure cameras that follow the rotation of the Earth to get that sort of detail. Then the photographer superimposes desert scenes on top of them. Nice, but false. If you really want to see the stars as they are, I recommend eastern Nevada on a moonless night. And by that I don’t mean Las Vegas. You have to travel at least 100 miles north of Vegas to get away from the lights. 200 would be better. And bring a jacket and plenty of water.”
They’re no more photoshopped than any other digital photo these days, it’s just that digital cameras are so much more sensitive to light than film ever was. That said, this type of photography has become such a cliche in just a few years that a friend of mine even started an Instagram account using a frighteningly detailed action figure (doll) to mock it.
https://www.instagram.com/wildernessinfluencer/
I don’t think these shots were photoshopped in anyway that altered their composition. What the photographer did was use a fisheye lens with a 180 degree field of view. He kept some prominent landscape feature in the center to avoid the appearance of distortion, and let the lens bend the sky in an arc.