[PIC_THREAD] Landscapes, Architecture, Seascapes

Great shots of the Durdle Door n1 An Exception. I went last year and got some images but the sky was feature less so they had no atmosphere. I love the mono shot wez130. I just got back from a week at Portland and managed to drag myself out at 3.30am so I could get some shots at Corfe Castle


Corfe Castle in Dawn Mist by throttle426, on Flickr
 
thanks for the comments guys, I have had a great response from people for this image. It was defiantly worth setting off in the dark at 3.30am so I could be there at dawn.
 
Its a two shot vertical pano. 15 sec, f/2.2, ISO 2000. I only refocused on the foreground for the bottom part of the shot but I may as well have not bothered because of the wind.

It was quite difficult to do post on and bring out the milky way because the colours seem to get really vibrant, I'm sure there's other techniques I can use to combat that if I look into it though. I also had a street lit road right behind me so the wheat was actually bright orange initially.
 
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That's some really nice detail you're pulling out of the clouds in the milky way there. All my attempts so far seem to come out quite faint and look pretty flat... Any particular processing techniques you're finding that help to bring up the contrast?
 
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oio said:
That's some really nice detail you're pulling out of the clouds in the milky way there. All my attempts so far seem to come out quite faint and look pretty flat... Any particular processing techniques you're finding that help to bring up the contrast?
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Yeah, I've not seen it this clear before, it was pure chance as well really. I was actually going out just to get the tracks in the wheat field leading to a starry sky but then when I looked at the back of camera I saw the milky way...which I never thought I would see in the midlands, I wasn't even that far from civilization.

As for editing...mostly I used tone curves in LR4, that really helped bring it out. There's also maybe three LR4 grad filters on the sky to give me control over different parts of the exposure and I believe I messed around with blue/purple/magenta sliders in HSL. It was a learning process for me really, I may go back and try again.

I used a Canon 5D2 and 28mm 1.8 USM.
 
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As for editing...mostly I used tone curves in LR4, that really helped bring it out. There's also maybe three LR4 grad filters on the sky to give me control over different parts of the exposure and I believe I messed around with blue/purple/magenta sliders in HSL. It was a learning process for me really, I may go back and try again.
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Cheers for that, I'll have another play and see what comes out. I'm thinking I might need to drop some ISO next time as I've been trying around 3200, and pushing that too far in editing swamps the image with sensor noise.
 
Another from the same night. I like to think I've gotten my 'Milky Way over a Dead Tree' shot out the way now. The sky is hard to keep looking natural because I was so close to town and its light pollution.


Day 153 by 42zx, on Flickr
 
Some simply stunning work here... I'm really blown away but what you guys are doing.

The Corfe Castle pic is beautiful, and well worth getting up early to capture... and the Milky Way shots are very-very cool :cool:

Going though many pages here, there is not a dud to be seen :D
 
Probably no where near the standard:

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