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Published: 2010-04-17 08:31:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 13091; Favourites: 1294; Downloads: 0
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Me and experimented with some night time stuff this week. Results were awesome and I'll definitely be doing some more in the future!5D II
16-35mm II @16mm
ISO400
f/4
298 seconds
This was taken around 11pm and the light on the horizon is from a town.
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The lighting is unbelievable. I love this. Great job!
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Sweet; awesome lighting! I took some pictures of the starry sky some days ago as well, and on my way home I saw aurora borealis. I should definitely go back when there's a bit more light on the ground, though.
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Amazing Job, I really need to get of town to try get those colors of the sky and of far away cities ....
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Excellent stuff. It's amazing how much light emanates from a city these days, but it sure looks great.
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thank you
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And not to mention viewing the stars.
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It's amazing, but the stars are not taken correctly. Anyways it's so amazing!!! It doesn't even matter if the stars are taken incorrectly I LOVE IT!
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but please do tell us what's wrong with the stars if you say they are "not taken correctly".
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Do you know how some times when you take a picture and it's sort fo turned in a way? Well it looks like that. The camera are not concentrated at one point that it doesn't look like a point in the sky like we see stars. If that's what you were aiming for that's really cool and it builds attraction. You see, some people would disagree because of there own experience of taking pictures of stars and I've learned from them, the potographers.
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i'm not sure that i get what you want to say, but maybe you wanted Polaris in the view? the "center" of the night-sky? so the sky doesn't look "offset" because the trails on the left are longer than the ones on the right? i think that the photographer focused on having the city lights in the background, and he didn't payed attention to where Polaris might be.
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I guess. Thanks for explaining but i think the whole picture is amazing of how he got his point across! What do you think? I have terrible English. Sorry if my words aren't comprehensive. ^^
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what i like in the picture is the sense of time passing (shown by the movements of the stars and clouds) and the stillness of the present (given by the "stoned" tree; this one is rather a paradox: every moment is the present moment). also there's an alienesque feeling to it, if it wasn't for the woods at the horison one could imagine this piece is on mars.
my english ain't that good either, so we're fine
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Wow! That's how I feel.
^^ It's fine!
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love your work , baai baai mooi , love the movement in the sky , the still in the land , great detail and feel of my homeland - Afrika
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This is probably one of your best pieces. Well done! How long did you set your exposure time? Did you use a polarizer for this?
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no filters... I think the exposure was 5 minutes
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...Scratch my exposure time question. New beta interface...sorry; didn't see all of your info.
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That is absolutely incredible... I now want to live in Africa
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This is awesome, and quite lovely. <3
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Wow, this is a super cool photo! Love the way its illuminated...
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amazing!! you just inspire me to go out and try night photography
by the way, where was this?
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Awesome! Love your work. Stay motivated and going strong!
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Awesome! Love your work. Stay motivated and going strong!
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Awesome! Love your work. Stay motivated and going strong!
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i love this the colours are brilliant, really simple subject but works really well
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I always like bulb shooting. Anyway, do you have remote time switcher ?? It would be nice to make HD speed up video about night sky with this tree...
Example:
exposure time ~ 180 seconds
number of shots: 140 (=7 hrs) from 9 p.m to 4 a.m.
nope?
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My my, this looks not real. No photoshop at all?
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ofcourse there is, but only a minor amount of cloning and some contrast and color enhancement
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I can't speak for the photographer, but shots like this are totally possible without Photoshop. It's called long exposure, meaning the camera's shutter is open and taking in light data for a long time (i.e. slow shutter speed). See where it says "298 seconds" in the description? That was his shutter speed. By comparison, a crisp daylight shot of a flying hummingbird might have a shutter speed of 1/1000 of a second to 1/2000 of a second.
[link] is Wikipedia's explanation of how it works, and [link] are some examples of long exposure photography. Hope you find some cool stuff in there
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Huh. Never heard of the technique. Thanx!
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i love night photography but i'm wondering how much photoshop was used and i love photoshop too! lol cos you still have decent side lighting on the tree even though the sun is behind it and it should be sihloueted (how ever it's spelt) and the night sky blending into the sunset is kinda impossible here in australia cos there'd never be that many stars visible at that particular time... so awesome photoshoping or your lucky and have an extra sync flash handy for the tree.... please enlighten me.... and i'm not dissing the photo or anything i love it!!! great work!!!
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haha no man. The highlight is the lights from a town. this was taken a good 4 hours after sunset and we only got there after dark. No manipulation
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