What is it? An almost-five-minute exposure of people walking up and down Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh on bonfire night. The explosion at the top is actually the point where fireworks were being launched throughout the five minutes, as you can see by the trails. I was really quite pleased with the whole volcano effect of it :)
Oh, the lights are mainly blue because most people were using LED torches or their mobile phones to see where they were going.
Editing: crop, increase in intensity, sharpen
Had this not been basic editing i'd have taken out the annoying sparks in the top right which are from a firework going off just outside the frame, and cloned out the dozens of hot pixels (which are fortunately barely visible at 640).
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8 - Great shot. Criticism; difficult as I am not sure how you did this nor the time of day it was, and am certainly no expert in lighting, but would like to have been able to discern more 'color' in the volcano/mountain. Also to see the 'river' enhanced more, 'somehow', even just the color, would have been great. Perhaps a slightly tighter crop on the left, incorporating a fraction more on the right (dependent of course what is there), may have made this even better in my opinion. Certainly unique in the Challenge. As for a 'true landscape', again no expert on that, but sure comes close, just 'different' in my opinion. edit: post challenge - you fooled me - I had no idea - but I just learnt more about long exposure - thanks
Cool, is that a real volcano or are those fireworks? Not that it matters, I like it. :)
Especially the flow of what I guess is moonlit water from the mountain is a nice element here.
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