City - Nipton State - CALIFORNIA Country - United States
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my apologies to those that commented on the image i took down... i will upload it again tomorrow, but larger... this image was done in the same fashion, it is two images overlayed together with exposures of 30sec. @ f2.8 with varying kelvins 1 @ 10,000 and 1 @ 2500 this horrizon is faceing due north and the bright area in the center is the lights of Las Vegas, nearly 90 miles away. the light that is comeing out of the center is the light that sits atop the Luxor hotel....
Thanks for your great comments Hugo!! this particular place is absolutely pitch black and focussing is a problem as well... once i get the cable release i will really open the shutter up for a spell... and i plan on experimenting with people and every thing else... i really do like that feature....
Ya CS2 would definatley make a nearly idetical version of this, however, yes i believe its cheating... i really do try to stay away from manipulating too much in photoshop... though the healing brush and some other tools are my very best friends!!
This is definitely a technique I would love to experiment with; especially the varying WB temperatures. Interesting point about the double vision on the stars; I noticed that in the larger version already, and also this image does suggest the repetitive yet separate star dots. Makes sense, but it's only a very minute thing.
Thanks for the explanation, I've seen the image overlay option, never realised what it was for, though. Weird to have a multiple exposure feature on a D-SLR, though. One shot in RAW with Nikon Capture editor will also do the trick if you'd save it as two separate versions to be combined in CS2 later.... Still, I'd call that cheating, but the result will be identical, and probably a tad sharper, as you don't need to fiddle with the camera between the shots....:)
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{K:26133} 1/6/2006
