Moonee Headlands

AstroJunk (Jonathan) · #1 23-10-2013, 11:00 PM

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. (Jo) · #2 24-10-2013, 07:27 AM

What a great shot

Jo

blink138 (Pat) · #3 24-10-2013, 01:43 PM

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

redomatic (Michael) · #4 24-10-2013, 06:00 PM

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 (Trevor) · #5 24-10-2013, 07:41 PM

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

Trevor

AstroJunk (Jonathan) · #6 25-10-2013, 09:58 PM

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 (Jonathan) · #7 25-10-2013, 10:44 PM

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

dutch2 (Ingrid) · #8 27-10-2013, 10:02 AM

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

CapturingTheNight (Greg) · #9 27-10-2013, 10:05 AM

Loving the foreground in that Jonathan

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 · #10 27-10-2013, 04:21 PM

Nice looking photo Jonathon.

Great composition and I love the foreground.

Ross.

matt34 (Matt) · #11 28-10-2013, 03:26 PM

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 (Jonathan) · #12 29-10-2013, 09:54 PM

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