Haleakalā Milky Way
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by chalice:
Congrats on the TT finish. Beautiful sky. I've shot this wonderful location, but never at night. It's on my bucket list. Given the variable weather at the top, you really were fortunate to have such a clear sky. Kudos for the final image. Well done.

Haleakalā Milky Way
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by Dennisheckman:
Congratulations on placing TT Doc! Fantastic sky and sounds like a great time. Cuttooth and I drove up there last November and it was completely clouded in, so consider yourself lucky! Congrats on achieving your goal!

Haleakalā Milky Way
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by sidpixel:
Hello from the Critique club

An interesting image that contributes well to the free challenge

A very accomplished image of the Milky Way in the night sky. Though I like the rugged line of the landscape I tend to agree with one of your commenters especially against such an impressive night sky. You could easily improve the shot with a panoramic crop that excludes most of the foreground thereby placing even more emphasis on the sky. You may even consider a letterbox type crop which removes the very bright star and placing all emphasis on the Milky Way itself?

Given your very respectable score and placing it obviously works well enough! Well done doc.

Haleakalā Milky Way
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by tate:
Looking forward to seeing the settings / process on this one. Love the mysterious clouds? over the horizon.

Haleakalā Milky Way
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by WonderDude:
What a clear night this must have been.

Haleakalā Milky Way
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by Dennisheckman:
I love the sky but the FG is showing up too much because it's full of artifacts and noise. Really takes away from the utterly fantastic work you did on the sky. 8

Haleakalā Milky Way
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by Ammie:
Diamonds in the sky! Real nice

Haleakalā Milky Way
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by bmartuch:
Those stars are amazing.

Naked Waters
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by snaffles:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Now this is a somewhat freaky image, with all the unusual textures going on, but it all seems to work somehow. The oddball metallic look of the water is worth the price of admission. Exposure is great, though I side with Lydia on the water on the butt cheek :-) Amazed that you basically have no glare at all on the statue, and the hint of another figure on the other side helps add to the story.

If you want to get really nitpicky, I'd say clone out that one little blodge of sensor dust at the very top. Otherwise, pretty decent finish overall and did meet the challenge description.

Susan

Sound You Can Feel
by Dr.Confuser

Comment by npasel:
WOW! Impressive.