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Ballycotton, Night
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I’m on the fence as well Peter.
The stars and the sky are really lovely.
The sun appears quite harsh, more distracting than pleasant for me.
The bottom 1/4 doesn’t really move me at all.
I’m not sure that it presents itself well at this size either, maybe best viewed larger in print to see some of the finer detail.
J
John, I think that’s the light house that is a bit harsh and not the sun. I think the sun can be seen just beginning to rise in the bottom left of the picture. I think the image might look a lot better with the light house toned down, great sky.
Dave.
Thanks for the feedback guys. You’re right, Dave. It is the lighthouse, although John’s the second person to mistake it for the Sun – so clearly it has that look.
Ballycotton’s a fantastic lighthouse, except that it has a baleful red eye instead of the more normal white.
I agree that it needs toning down, I was doing some in-camera burning on it by shielding the lens every time it swung around for the latter half of the (half hour!) exposure, but it clearly wasn’t enough.
The image is a composite of two exposures of the same composition. The bottom 1/4 is from a 30 minute exposure, and the sky is from a 6 second exposure at ISO 6400, heavily noise reduced.
Here’s the image with the lighthouse light and glare cut down considerably.
And for fun, here’s the uncomposited 30 minute exposure
The light on the horizon at left is not sunrise (the shot was made at about 1am), but the light pollution from… I guess it must be Youghal.
Cheers,
Peterhi Peter, lovely sky image…i spend a lot of time with night photography right now…it still needs some time to reach my quality goal.
Thelighthouse adds some excitement and turns it more in a aristical direction!
Cheers M*
Hi Peter
Fine shots and the reflection is what throws it off for me.
It might be worth trying to clone the reflected light from the water and keeping the first shot the same albeit with this omission.
The sky and starts are superb
DeeDee –
Thanks for the suggestion. I agree that the reflection is a problem, although cloning it out wouldn’t work – it needs to be there because the eye expects to see a reflection from a bright light source like that.However, I have modified your suggestion and cloned it out on a layer, then reducing the opacity of that layer to about 50% – that effectively dims the reflection to a much more manageable level.
Madeleine – thanks for the comments. I’m sure your results will prove excellent, judging by your recent work.
Cheers,
PeterPeter I love the sky and the detail there but I find the lighthouse distracting
well the reflection on the water anyway. the illuminated cloud and mist are wonderful.Hi Peter,
I love it, the first image that is, with that wonderful burst of colour making it anything other than an ordinary predictable nightscene.
I think it is striking.Mac
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