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Yellowstone Night
Yellowstone Night
steffyld


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: 30 Seconds or More (Basic Editing III*)
Camera: Nikon D70s
Lens: Sigma 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 for Nikon
Location: Yellowstone National Park
Date: Jun 15, 2006
Aperture: F5.6
ISO: 1100
Shutter: 30 sec
Galleries: Landscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: Jun 20, 2006

 Soda Butte at Yellowstone at midnight. It was pitch black out, so I waited for a car to drive by and let their headlights fan across the mound. Editing included Sharpen, USM, and Hue/ Saturation. I'm still learning with my new camera and I had the ISO set to auto and I've learned that it should have been set to 100 or so to reduce the grain.

Statistics
Place: 57 out of 170
Avg (all users): 5.7980
Avg (commenters): 6.1765
Avg (participants): 5.6447
Avg (non-participants): 5.8344
Views since voting: 1414
Views during voting: 545
Votes: 396
Comments: 21
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 08/28/2006 11:09:24 PM
For long image exposures set the long exposure noise reduction. It takes a second exposure of the back of the shutter and subtracts the artifacts from the original exposure. as for noise, bah look at a iso 1600 piece of film :-P
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 06/27/2006 10:44:23 PM
Third highest score Steph ;) Sweet! Now set your ISO manually and start shooting RAW :) Great shot nonetheless :)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/27/2006 05:39:15 AM
Too much noise detracts from this shot, in my opinion.
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 06/26/2006 05:03:08 AM
This shot can be improved by cleaning up the noise in the sky.
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 06/25/2006 03:57:38 PM
great lighting... too bad the noise is a bit too much in here. 7 anyway
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 06/25/2006 12:51:02 PM
Very nice.
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 06/24/2006 09:43:01 AM
There's a lot of grain.
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 06/23/2006 07:33:48 PM
Nice scene. I wish the foreground and background lighting levels were a little more balanced, as I find the background more interesting. Especially that mountain on the far left. That square thing lying in the foreground center seems out of place.
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 06/23/2006 05:39:07 PM
Beautiful landscape. Wish I could see more of the mountain in the background.
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 06/23/2006 03:15:59 PM
I like the detail in the foreground of this image. There seems to be alot of noise in the sky (which i can only assume is a function of the long exposure time). Nice composition otherwise.
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 06/23/2006 10:08:28 AM
Is that someone's photo laying there?
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 06/23/2006 06:46:45 AM
great depth of field really captured the vastnest of the scenery
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 06/23/2006 04:40:56 AM
Pretty cool shot, too bad they don´t make flashlights powerful enough to light up that dark mountain in the backround, now THAT would have been a ribbon shot :)
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 06/22/2006 04:10:16 PM
Nice composition. . . The foreground light kind of takes away the mystery and power of the mountains for me.
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 06/22/2006 09:02:25 AM
Meets Challenge:2
Aesthetics:1
Technical: 1
Wow:0
Originality:1
Total Score:5
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 06/22/2006 03:01:43 AM
Nice one.....
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 06/21/2006 10:07:53 PM
very pretty
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 06/21/2006 04:51:14 PM
what beauty in 30 seconds can be seen.
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 06/21/2006 12:57:06 PM
The central mass seems a bit dark to me (will look at it on another monitor later), and there's some book or something in the foreground which is bothersome. The sky is nice.

A different monitor - yes, there is a little more detail, but not much. ;-)
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 06/21/2006 08:33:57 AM
Excellent...really like the highlights on the near by features against the deep night time sky.
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 06/20/2006 08:47:39 PM
Something I learned from this challenge was to use Neat Image first to prevent excessive noise in the sharpened results...

I really like the colors here and the composition is nice too... It looks like you lit it with headlights form a car... am I right?
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