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Stargazing
Stargazing
timlu


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Challenge: Darkness (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Nyköping, Sweden
Date: Jun 11, 2005
Aperture: 10
ISO: 200
Shutter: 10 s
Galleries: Sky, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Jun 11, 2005

 The sky is never really dark in Scandinavia (58.8°N here) this close to the June solstice. This shot was taken near midnight and this is about as dark as it gets. You can still see some evening light in the lower part of the sky. I tried to give a positive touch to darkness. Darkness means stargazing to me. It's very refreshing to watch the stars, the planets and the moon in the stillness of the night and to watch the magnificent scene of a really dark night with a really clear sky.

Statistics
Place: 107 out of 373
Avg (all users): 5.4088
Avg (commenters): 6.6000
Avg (participants): 5.2481
Avg (non-participants): 5.5243
Views since voting: 651
Views during voting: 453
Votes: 318
Comments: 11
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/21/2005 06:13:41 PM
It would be nicer to see some stars in the sky, but still a nice shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/20/2005 11:39:48 PM
Nice composition and good demonstration of darkness
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/20/2005 05:13:18 PM
Good way to convey a pleasant dark activity. The image is great as long as viewers don't notice the sky is overcast. LOL The perspective is good and the blue tones in the sky touch off the composition nicely. The silhouette works well to.

On the technical side there is a lot of noise in the sky and you should consider applying some noise reduction to get rid of it.You have no control over the white specks in the sky but they are still distractions just the same that will affect your score.

Outside the noise this image should do well in scoring.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/18/2005 04:38:14 PM
Looks to be too much compression artifacts around the subject. There also seems to be too much cloud cover for stargazing... maybe if there were stars in the picture....
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/17/2005 01:36:09 PM
apropriate and effective
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/16/2005 09:33:47 AM
I like the idea and the shot . Wish there were a couple of stars visible. 8
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/16/2005 04:46:44 AM
Beautiful. 10.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/15/2005 09:29:44 AM
Pretty cloudy sky for seeing the stars...
TC
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/15/2005 06:57:06 AM
I like this solhouette. Unfortunately, I think this is a kind of photograph where digital noise doesn't look good. The big, blue sky would look much nicer if you had run it through NeatImage. 9.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/14/2005 11:33:04 PM
Too much noise.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/14/2005 10:47:08 PM
it'd be nicer if the sky is full of stars and captured on photo
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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