MY 50th UPLOAD IN EXPLORE!!! Highest position: 362 on Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Yesterday I had some real fun while shooting long exposures!
I'm coming across one of the 400d limits: its high ISO performance.
I'm sure this will be one of the fields where the 5d2 will make the difference.
Even if it may appear fake, the road sign is real!! I just tilted the arrow to point towards the Milky Way (and of course changed its label).
The orange light inside of the car comes from the radio.
One small note: today I received a call from the shop where I ordered the IR filter: they don't know when it will be available (at least 4+ weeks), so I decided to cancel the order.
It's pretty difficult to find it here in Italy, so I think I will try IR Photography next year!
ISO 1600, f/3.5, 39sec, EF-S 10-22 @ 10mm
The shot
I found a really pretty location, I parked on one side of a road, in one hour just one car passed by!
You'll see more shots from there in the next days.
The Processing
Photoshop:
- Cleaned the foreground
- Used Free Transform to rotate the sing
- Wrote a new label in the sing (Text Tool)
- Brightened the sing a little
- Used the Color Balance tool to cool the sky
- Created a Hue/Sat layer to change the tints inside the car
- Applied some Noise Reduction with Noise Ninja
- Used the Unsharp Mask to improve microcontrast
- Blurred the clouds a little
- Resized
- Framing and signature.
Take a look at it,
LARGE on Black :
Road to the Milky Way, on Black
@ You all
Comments, faves and critiques are always welcomed!
I'm pretty satisfied on how it turned out. Getting more and more involved with night exposures!
Have the best week ever, my friends!
