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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Great shot Roger
I prefer these more or less "as it would appear if you had been there" type shots with dark foregrounds over those shot with staged lighting or an over-lit foreground....of course that is just personal taste..after all, I use emission line filters to create narrowband images.. so who am I to talk 
Mike |
Thanks Mike, understood
I'll let you know when I have a narrow-band wide field milky way with dark silhouettes
Would be neat to do, I have to admit
Don't have the kit for it though.
I would like to make the background in this image darker, but I haven't liked the contrasty effect that ends up having
I think I need to do a lot more tinkering to achieve that right balance. One problem is, the darker the background the yellow/red of the sky colour comes out too strong, so I desaturate that but then it looks odd. The foreground is quite natural as-is, as the landscape was reasonably well lit by the night sky.
Just wait till I throw in the foreground exposures I have with light painting
I have a new gel kit and had some great fun with psychedelic trees
you'll love it
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Originally Posted by iceman
Very nice - the gradients are distracting to me. I love the yellow in the milky way.
I guess the only downside with the lens is that all your horizons are curved. Will be good for some shots, but others it will end up annoying
Plenty of sky though! |
Yeah, the curvature definitely lends its self to some shots and not others. I have so far really liked it for astronomy where the curvature means that the foreground easily wraps and nicely frames the sky. For daytime shots I haven't enjoyed it so much - I tend to find the curvature too strong. Of course being a zoom it's nice that I can flatten that curvature quite a bit if I'm happy to sacrifice a couple of mm in focal length.
One vote for gradient removal noted
There's quite reasonable data in the original exposures. The colour changes dramatically from horizon to zenith and I think that's a large part of my problem, perhaps an occupational hazard of using such a wide fisheye? Gradient removal would be an option, but it did vary in colour in reality.
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