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Challenge: Free Study 2007-07 (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
Location: Hammond, WI
Date: Jul 21, 2007
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: ISO 400
Shutter: 30s
Galleries: Landscape, Rural
Date Uploaded: Jul 22, 2007

 Disclaimer: This shot not taken in Iceland.

Set up for this shot in an attempt to do star trails (check out my portfolio for the result of that), hit the shutter release, 30seconds later this popped up on the screen. Sat there scratching my head for a little while cause they weren't all visible very easily. Shot a few more, the first ended up being the only good one.

Editing:
Open in PSCS2
Remove noise with Noise Ninja
Clone out some hot pixels
Adjust levels
Curves
Sharpen
Add border
Save for web

Pretty simple

Hope you guys like it!

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/07/2007 10:07:34 PM
maybe less space on the bottome and more contrast might be nice
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/03/2007 04:19:15 PM
A nice capture - my astronomer's heart is with you - but too dark overall. I want to believe that you could have pulled more out of this in post processing, but I don't know what your raw image was like. You've got three elements to work with, which is two more than most astrophotographers start with: sky, aurora, and foreground. You've got to find a way to really punch one or more of those - detail and some color in the foreground, boosting the contrast and brightness of the aurora, etc. Elinias' shot is an example:



I'll be back to see who shot this and ponder the details after the challenge ends.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/02/2007 02:11:40 AM
nice shot!
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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