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It's Twilight Time
It's Twilight Time
jlanoue


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Challenge: Trees II (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Location: Chesterville, Maine
Date: Apr 26, 2009
Aperture: f3.0
ISO: 800
Shutter: b
Galleries: Landscape, Astrophotography
Date Uploaded: Apr 28, 2009

 Summer Milky way rising in Chesterville Maine. Did a similiar shot back in May '08 and it was legal then, we'll see if SC is in as good a mood :-) This is a composite of 5 5 minute exposures with a tracking device moving the camera with the rotation of the sky, "telescope" is a 10mm canon lens borrowed from a friend. I'm guessing the f/stop was around 3.0, although honestly, I didn't even look, that's what happens when you shoot at 3:00am ! The trees were provided with a single 2 minute exposure with the tracking device off.

Post mortem... ever enter a challenge with what you think is a great shot then come to work and look at it on a different monitor in absolute horror? That's what happened to me here, I did a rush job on the processing for this shot, but I could have done alot better... when I came in the next morning and looked at it (along with the terrible score) was mortified. Oh well... if I had more time then I would have cropped the image, rotated it to flatten the tree line and fixed the saturation... here's what I should've entered

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/04/2009 04:31:36 PM
I love the angle shown, with the trees just crossing the bottom left.
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 05/03/2009 11:32:23 PM
what where and how?
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 05/03/2009 03:23:41 PM
Thanks again for this! Sky sure don't look like that around here :( Im sure at one point it looked like that everywhere. Clever use of the trees btw, most would think this is deeper astrophotography without them.
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 04/30/2009 01:00:53 PM
Beautiful sky. Is that for real?
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