Great image Humayun. The composition is great, the colour/mood of the shot is spot on. What lighting up the foreground? It looks nice & even and just enough light. How have you found the 17-40 as a nightscape lens I have it but never thought to use it at night.
Lovely composition - a little bit Turneresque too!
Eric
Nic,
Thank you.
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answers my question ... .... beautiful H
Rob,
Appreciate it.
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Beautiful work Humayun
Matt,
Thanks for the kind words!
The foreground is being lit by a 20-25% Moon hanging about 15 degrees in the sky in the west.
I would much rather the 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM, for its extra stop of light and the beautiful diffraction spikes it creates at sunrise/sunset. But, for now, the 17-40mm f/4L USM will suffice.
The 17-40mm is not a bad lens. It's been my landscape workhorse for about 5 years now. I love it to bits. But, the extra stop means a lot now.
I will be either purchasing the Canon 14mm f/2.8L II USM or the 16-35mm before I head to Iceland in February.
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Great image Humayun. The composition is great, the colour/mood of the shot is spot on. What lighting up the foreground? It looks nice & even and just enough light. How have you found the 17-40 as a nightscape lens I have it but never thought to use it at night.
I agree if I knew now what I did when I brought the 17-40 I would have saved for the extra stop of light. At the time I thought i'd beer go lower than f8 on landscape but that was before I discovered nightscapes.
Have you thought about the samyang 14mm f2.8 just recently brought one myself there are a few ppl on here using it and it's been great so far.
Mite have to take the 17-40 out with me one night to try it out as a night lens u got great results with it.
I know quite a few people have been getting great results with the Samyang lens. Having said that, the processing software that I use (Canon's Digital Photo Professional) does not have/allow lens profiles for third party lenses. This, for me, is a deal breaker. I don't use any other software (apart from exporting the images as TIFFs to Photoshop when required) as I want to see on my computer screen exactly what I saw on my camera when I captured the image. No other software will do this other than the native software. I have invested many thousands of dollars on my equipment and I just can't bring myself to use software other than what gives /me/ the results I am after. I run my images (that I know I will print) through the DLO module in DPP and it does remarkable things to the image.
The next three lenses on my to-get list are: the 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM, 135mm f/2L USM and a dedicated 14mm f/2.8L II USM. I don't mind spending the money.
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I agree if I knew now what I did when I brought the 17-40 I would have saved for the extra stop of light. At the time I thought i'd beer go lower than f8 on landscape but that was before I discovered nightscapes.
Have you thought about the samyang 14mm f2.8 just recently brought one myself there are a few ppl on here using it and it's been great so far.
Mite have to take the 17-40 out with me one night to try it out as a night lens u got great results with it.
Adam,
Many thanks.
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Outstanding shot, great composition, a real beauty
Carlos,
Thank you. It's a bit of a monochromatic scheme of earthy tones and it works.
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Beautiful Shot H love the colours.
Yuri,
Glad you like it. I love your work.
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What a view ! Very nice image indeed.
Hugh,
Cheers, mate.
Yep, I most definitely will.
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Nice shot H!!
+1 for the 16-35mm f2.8LII, my favourite lens. Make sure you get it before your northern lights trip next year
H great composition but the colours don't look right to me. I have noticed this trend of late that the sky has green (almost vivid sputum) and appears pink/red. That is seen in quite a few photographers on here and it ought only appear when the aurora or ionised oxygen are present, not on images where there is no influence of this sort.
Your image presents with cyan clouds, pinky red sky and odd looking green on the trees, and weird looking red pink in the flowers. It does not look right to me and I am not going to say it looks good. No doubt this will ruffle some feathers but the sky is not red and the clouds are not cyan or blue. Just my opinion, take of it what you will. Sort of feel this way about oversaturation that you feel about HDR.
.... beautiful H 
