Sunset at 12 Apostles

[Atmos]

Weekend away with a photography club, managed to capture sunset at the 12 Apostles with 11 "ghosts" so I am thinking of titling it "The Eleven Faithful" or something along those lines.

I've still got a little cloning to do in CS4 but so far it has all been done using PixInsight :) This is about 4 minutes of 8-12 second exposures at F/22.

[BilliGoatsGruff]

This is a great capture. I like the eerie feeling that you have created :)

P.S the name is also great.

[astronobob]

Grouse Colin, dig the cloud effects from lots of exposures too :thumbsup:

[Atmos]

Thanks :-)



Had to hit it with 10 passes of the HDRTransfomation to actually bring the sky out.

[RobF]

You might have PI going mainstream in general photography next Colin :)
Beautiful pic too BTW - has turned out great with the added human factor.

[Atmos]

Started with flat fielding it to get rid of the thousands of dust bunnies. I have been left with 2-3 ring artifacts in the near blown out sections of the sky. These only became visible after the HDRTransformation. The flat field itself was taken about a week or more later so there is a chance that they were water droplets anyway. Or it may just have difficulty in large near saturated environments.

I found that the UnSharp Mask was easier to control than Deconvolution, plus a little bit of Deringing makes a world of difference.

Instead of playing around with the saturation in the Curves Transformation, I did a synthetic luminance and hit it with a LRGB Combination :P