ok not actually the desert, but I liked the title.I went out almost everynight this week to try to find a shot that I had in my head, this one is almost exactly how I saw it and I very happy with it.
20 minutes exposure and did alot of work with the raw file as when it started it came out with a red pink sky so I changed the temp way down and played with curves and used the sharpening tool in raw. Also desaturated green and changed hue of the red.
After raw rotated and cropped. USM, Channel Mixer. Hue Saturation and adjusted almost all channels abit especially magenta hue to blue to give the shot a more even sky. Resized to 640 and ran through NI and USM, save for the web.
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"Desert Nightlife" is an amazing entry into the Night Shot III challenge. Top seven percent and 20th place, very well deserved. Congratulations.
The first thing that grabbed my attention was the colors, they are very beautiful for a night shot. The clarity is very excellent especially with a long exposure shot. The composition is prefect. You have done wonderful work here.
After reading your comments I am surprised this is not the desert. The image defiantly looks like a prefect desert card. I would be curious to see the original since you mentioned adjusting the temperature, but I am sure the blue/purple was much more of a night color.
Again congrats and I look forward to your future entries.
This is a good photograph, but I have seen things like this before. Good clarity a little too much glow on the sharpening at the needles of the cactus. Overall not too bad, nice work.
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