[alexch (Alex)]

Originally Posted by Octane

Superb images.

I can see the Dark Doodad under the Southern Cross. : )

H

Thanks, H.
I am happy I could snap these two given the wild weather.

Originally Posted by astroron

Great images Alex
I was there last year, fantastic place , must go again some time
Did you get attacked by the killer Wombats

Thanks, Ron.

I saw one grazing near our tent 1am in the morning. All food was kept locked in the car so it did not attack, but left a lot of green "I was here" messages around the car

Originally Posted by Geoff uk

well done Alex now to me thats a dark sky love it if only we had it in u.k. i would be it my element one envius pom take and all the best Geoff

Thanks, Geoff. That spot at the Tidal River is darky sky by my standard too

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Sublime

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Top shots Alex worthy of a comp or two

Originally Posted by iceman

Lovely shots Alex! Nice work.

Originally Posted by Garyh

Love that second one!

Originally Posted by multiweb

Beautiful as always.

Originally Posted by niko

stunning and beautiful composition

well done alex

Peter, Trevor, Mike, Gary, Marc, Niko - thanks a lot guys!

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yeh these are nice Alex, the mysterious glows from the townships really give the shots some mood and human reference without being obvious. The land to sky transition looks believable too, well done.

Just an idea, you might like to try deliberately saturating the bright stars just a tad to highlight the notable constellations?

On my fairly contrasty monitor here at work there looks to be a lot cyan/blue in the sky.? Still looks good though.

Mike

Thanks, Mike.
These are not townships but the Tidal River Camp site a hundred metres away!

The frist shot is a single exposure, so no problems with the land/sky transitions there. When I stack I blend the exposures back first to match a single exposure and then adjust the levels, so the land/sky transition is quite natural.

There is moonlight in the first image - hence the blue/cyan colour. The second image looks fairly neutral on my calibrated screen (must remind myself to re-do the calibration soon).

Originally Posted by BLiTZWiNG

Ahh Smelly River, good spot that for viewing... and the RAAF fly past reasonably often too, if you sit on squeaky beach for a while you should see a few jets every now and again on the horizon out to sea.

Pity about the smell, but I miss the Rosellas. Up here we get Eastern Rosellas, they're pretty blue/yellow/green coloured.

There was no smell this time of the year and kids enjoyed swimming in it. The Squeaky Beach is a great spot, I must come back and image there at night.