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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 78 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
I also prefer the origina, and for me it is because it is less conventional. |
Nov 21st |
| 78 |
Nov 25 |
Reply |
You have to see New England Autumn foliage to believe it. Color saturation was not altered in this image, only brightness that was first turned up in my original, and then turned back down in my repost. |
Nov 8th |
| 78 |
Nov 25 |
Reply |
I did understand that your image is a composite of over a hundred individual images. I don't quite understand your comments on the center of rotation of your trails. Are you saying that the center of the trails in your reconstructed composite image actually is 41 degrees above the horizon?
I think that I misunderstood your objective. I thought you were generating an image that was to look like a standard star trail where the camera is pointed at polaris and the shutter is kept open for several hours. The method that you used certainly avoided problems generated by a less than completely dark sky. Having all the trails change in brightness like the appearance of a comet generates an interesting, but to me, a somewhat unnatural effect. |
Nov 8th |
| 78 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
I've taken another look at your image. To me, it looks like the star trails have been elongated in the vertical direction, leaving them as portions of ellipses and not circles. I suspect the keystoning correction did this. |
Nov 6th |
| 78 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
Very nice job in cropping to generate an interesting image. I'd like it more if the fog in the opening around the man were less blue. |
Nov 4th |
| 78 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
Very interesting. I like your decision to make it B&W. |
Nov 4th |
| 78 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
Yes, a thought provoking combination of a newly married couple and a beautiful shoreline. |
Nov 4th |
| 78 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
I like it very much as it is. |
Nov 4th |
| 78 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
On my monitor, the brightness of the aspens is OK, but I think too orange. Nice job sharpening. |
Nov 4th |
| 78 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
I very much like the sky color.
I'd like it better if the "trails" were of uniform brightness instead of growing brighter at their ends. I suspect that somewhere in your workflow, exposure values were automatically being adjusted, and as the background night sky grew darker with time, the exposure time was increased. Maybe manual setting of exposure on the camera would fix this.
You didn't explain why you mimiced a time exposure where the shutter is left open for a couple hours.
I don't understand how the center of the circular star tracks can look like it is only about 10 degrees above the horizon. I'd expect it to be closer to 40 degrees.
I think also that I"d like this better if the barn were not so close to the midline of the image. Being offset to one side would seem to balance the extreme symmetry of the star tracks. |
Nov 4th |
| 78 |
Nov 25 |
Comment |
Thank you Kathryn and Brenda. Apparently I turned up the brightness too much in trying to make the back-lit leaves glow. Since they were apparently already close to as bright as they could go, they didn't get brighter while the reflections in the water had plenty of room to become brighter. Thus, the reflections became abnormally bright. In what I'm posting now, I think the relative brightness of the leaves and their reflections are closer to what they really were. I guess I'll stop trying to capture glowing leaves. |
Nov 4th |
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