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Orion's Bedtime


Orion's Bedtime
Photo Information
Copyright: Jeffrey Biggs (SWFalken) (25)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-03-17
Categories: Nature
Camera: Canon EOS 20D, Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Tiffen 77mm UV Protector
Exposure: f/2.8, 6 seconds
Details: Tripod: Yes
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-03-20 18:18
Viewed: 482
Points: 2
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
This is a shot of the Constellation of Orion slipping below the walls of Red Rock Canyon is East Central California. The Photo was taken at 11:30 PM just after a Thunderstorm had passed by. The clarity of the atmosphere was unreal and allowed me to capture the image by Moonlight. I made a very long exposure of about 6sec. at ISO 1600 with the lens wide open. This resulted in a lot of random noise in the background of the dark sky. I remedied this by seperating the sky from the foreground in PSE3 and used the levels control to lower the light values until the noise dissapeared. I tried a simple despeckle filter but it removed to many of the stars forcing me to make the adjustments manually. I then made a slight correction to the saturation levels to compensate for the Moonlight.
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I like your Orion's Bedtime photo Jeff. You have done a good job with the noise removal also. Your image looks almost unreal...in a good way. The canyon colours are great and the stary sky adds even more life to your image. Well spotted.

Regards
Vernon

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  • ronners Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor [C: 345 W: 122 N: 31] (234)
  • [2006-03-24 13:07]

Nice shot Jeffrey, and in many ways an unusual one given that it's all 'natural' light. It would be great to see a little more sharpness in the rocks, but that may have been lost in post-processing. You could probably boost both sharpness and saturation in post-processing to make this one jump even more.

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