1 december 2008 conjunction smiley face Warners Bay

[h0ughy]

with heavy cloud i managed to get some shots off - no where near the quality of last night:mad2::sadeyes:

a mixed bag with the pentax k10D and the Canon 400d:shrug:

Alan Meehan came with me and I set up in the same spot as last night at Warners Bay. But as you can see with the sunset shot looking south towards Mike (way down central coast) they had a corker of a sunset down there. Just wish it was cloudfree!!!!:whistle:

[iceman]

Lovely images Dave. The last one looks like he's winking ;) He has a twinkle in his eye ;)

[firstlight]

Ya gotta be happy with them, Dave. Love the sunset and the Moon and planets through the clouds give it a great feel.

[RB]

Great work Houghy, especially for the conditions.
LOL Mike, you're right, the last one looks like he's winking.

Great sunset shot too mate.

[Bassnut]

Oh yes, a nice series Dave, atmospheric. The 1st one sets the scene, the others add to it, top work.

[h0ughy]

thanks guys - cant wait to see what you got mike, and you too RB. Tony where is yours?

[firstlight]

I posted them on this thread

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=38312

[h0ughy]

thanks Tony.

[h0ughy]

thanks Fred!

[spacezebra]

Hi David

Top shots! One is already on my Desk top.

Cheers Petra d.

[Garyh]

Lov`em Dave! nice bunch of pictures!
cheers

[[1ponders]]

How did you manage to sneak out of the house h0ughy. :lol:

Great collection of shots mate. :thumbsup:

[Dennis]

Nice work Dave – pity about the poor conditions! Gorgeous sunset photo!

Cheers

Dennis

[h0ughy]

i now have to be a good boy for the rest of the week:whistle:

[h0ughy]

thanks Dennis:thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

thanks Gary

[rogerg]

Love that sunset colour houghy.... such a shame the trio didn't poke through in that! :)

[h0ughy]

your probably right Roger, but i would have preferred a cloudless sky;)

[seeker372011]

nice work..saw a couple of your shots over on the daily telegraph site as well

[davidpretorius]

Hi Dave,

always love your moon shots. The little joop moons look good two.

Geez, a moderator...... what has the world come to!

[iceman]

Dave! Welcome back, nice to see you again.

[h0ughy]

:rofl: yeah lifes like that:whistle:

[Jen]

:) nice pics Dave, the clouds give it a cool eerie feeling :thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Lovely Dave, the wide shot with the smiley looking through the clouds over the lake is a beauty!

Wonder how many shots of this event will be sent to the David Malin Awards next year??? ;)

Mike

[h0ughy]

thanks jen - it was erie - just not enough sucker holes and far too much thick cloud and high cloud

[h0ughy]

thanks Mike .

well some masking, noise processing, deconvolution, and wavelts processing together with artistic license and borrowing one of the other peoples shot who posted i might have a chance
:rofl:

[strongmanmike]

Funnily enough I only do the last bit, the rest is for making fake doctored images :D

I think there have been plenty of versions of the smiley face taken at "Twilight" ..? ;)

Mike

[iceman]

I think you're right! It's gonna be another "Comet McNaught" flood of entries :)

[h0ughy]

I splurged on Noise Ninja just to keep the world economy going, all i can say is WOW what a difference milo makes........... oh and processing from RAW files, best 130 dollars I have spent (this week):whistle: Mcnaught will get a completely reprocessing from me with noise ninja..........

[RB]

Wow !!!!.........you actually bought s/w?

I mean......Wow...what a stunning photo, that's awesome mate. :D
The colour is fantastic.

So you reckon NNinja is good huh?
I'll have to give it a try, I've always wanted to.
Maybe Neat Image is a little dated now, I'll see how they compare.

:thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

it is reasonably easy to use - well i used it so there that says it all:rofl::whistle:

you can trial it but it sticks watermarks all over your image when your done:sadeyes:

[iceman]

I was going to say the other day that you should put a little more care into your processing, including noise reduction.

I use Noiseware Pro.

[h0ughy]

:rofl::rofl: you know me Mike - take and shove it up on the site:P i must process my images:whistle:

[spacezebra]

Hi David

Top shots! One is already on my Desk top.

Cheers Petra d.

[starfinder]

You've captured the scene and mood very well Dave. I love the sunset colours especially. Russ