Moonee Headlands

[AstroJunk]

I got a bit carried away and took this 180 megapixel 18 shot panorama yesterday! I did take raw images as well as jpg, but this is a 'holiday' process of the jpgs to see how it will shape up.

The tide was out so I carried the gear out into the bay and had some fun taking rather a lot of 30 second iso 1600 shots with my cannon 650d and Sigma 8-16 lens at 10mm (APS). I have tried higher iso, but find that noise becomes an issue on hot nights, so will have to stick to less spectacular sky until I get a new body.

[nebulosity.]

What a great shot :thumbsup:

Jo

[blink138]

ooh jonathon you have got something special there i reckon....... i really like it!
pat

[redomatic]

Nice Work!
I have been considering doing something similar at Poona (now the Milky Way is over the West) but.... I was always too scared of the town lights.
You have pulled it off nicely.
Especially the even lighting on the sand.

[Regulus]

Very dramatic. Great composition and colour. Really like it.

Trevor

[AstroJunk]

Thanks for the words of encouragement :)

I'd rather hoped to have posted a reprocessed version from the cr2 data by now, but am still trying to get the sky right - I need to find some consistency in my processing; ah, the joys of being a rookie...

[AstroJunk]

OK, had another play and came up with this slightly less subtle version. Not convinced I prefer it!

[dutch2]

They are both great, but I prefer the first.
It's all personal preference.
Well done.:thumbsup:

[CapturingTheNight]

Loving the foreground in that Jonathan :thumbsup: Great shot! Looks like you need to have another play with the WB settings and Tint in your RAW processed version. Looks a bit too magenta in the sand and the artificial lights look a little off as well (to my tastes).

[Ross G]

Nice looking photo Jonathon.

Great composition and I love the foreground.

Ross.

[matt34]

Great shot Jonathon, I prefer the first one with the more subtle processing.

The textures foreground looks great. Do you have any single frame compositions of the area I think that could look good as well.

[AstroJunk]

Thanks for the comments all, and I agree with the consensus that the more natural look is better. I'm back in front of dual monitors so can have a better go at processing now and will look at some of the single frames to.

I do have some iso 3200 shots which were not nearly as noisy as I thought they would be, and may try and use tem as the sky. If nothing else, I know where to go next winter to try do the job properly :thumbsup: