Alone Under the Stars

[Regulus (Trevor)]

A nice photograph in all regards.
I must get back to Condo one day. Was born there but haven't been back since I was 6yrs old.

[gregbradley]

Nice work H.

Composition and framing is almost everything in these shots and you have done that really well.

That's the beauty of the DSLR. The freedom to setup quickly almost anywhere and make a beautiful compostion and go off to the next site within 30 minutes.

Greg.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Dave,

Cheers, mate. That was the low-hanging Moon working its magic.

Originally Posted by naskies

Nice work, H! Love the almost daylight appearance in the foreground.

Paul,

Curious that you're the only one who has issues with the colours? Are you viewing on a calibrated screen? Looks fine to me on both my MacBook Pro/30" cinema display as well as on my PC and iPhone/iPad.

There is general softness in the image as it was a compromise between noise reduction and rendering the image completely painterly. It is by no means perfect as I had to crank the exposure in post which exacerbated the noise. I need an f/2.8 lens.

The image was white balanced using the grey in the cloud (the Moon still looked white before it got too low when it turns cream). As such, I can't see the oddness that you are. Can anyone else pipe in if they're seeing the same thing as Paul?

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

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.

Trevor,

Many thanks!

I will be heading out there again soon. The sky there is just so beautiful.

Originally Posted by Regulus

A nice photograph in all regards.
I must get back to Condo one day. Was born there but haven't been back since I was 6yrs old.

Greg,

Thanks! Yep, composition is everything!

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Nice work H.

Composition and framing is almost everything in these shots and you have done that really well.

That's the beauty of the DSLR. The freedom to setup quickly almost anywhere and make a beautiful compostion and go off to the next site within 30 minutes.

Greg.

Thanks, all.

H

[Paul Haese]

H I am using a calibrated monitor. Looks the same on three other monitor I have too.

[Camknox (Cameron)]

Originally Posted by Octane

Paul,

Curious that you're the only one who has issues with the colours? Are you viewing on a calibrated screen? Looks fine to me on both my MacBook Pro/30" cinema display as well as on my PC and iPhone/iPad.

There is general softness in the image as it was a compromise between noise reduction and rendering the image completely painterly. It is by no means perfect as I had to crank the exposure in post which exacerbated the noise. I need an f/2.8 lens.

The image was white balanced using the grey in the cloud (the Moon still looked white before it got too low when it turns cream). As such, I can't see the oddness that you are. Can anyone else pipe in if they're seeing the same thing as Paul?

I'm seeing a slight tinge of pink/red to the sky closest the tree. The clouds appear as blue/green (I suppose cyan would be the colour) in the lower areas to the right.

While I agree with Paul in that it doesn't look "right", how something looks to one person or another should in no way stop someone from appreciating good quality photography. Perhaps the "artist/photographer" intended the scene to have an "other-wordly" appearance.

[ourkind (Carlos)]

Beautiful Humayun well done!