Taken about 10PM. I was shooting the city lights when I looked to my right and noticed the cliff standing there against the clouds, so I turned and took some exposures with various settings, this one turned out best. Editing was not much because it's a Basic challenge - the version where I could use my (still limited) choice of tools looks better. Curves, hue/sat, USM a couple times, photo filter with warming filter selected, selective color, resize/crop, border.
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Not legal for basic challenges but Image Stacker would allow you to shoot multiple short exposures to simulate a longer one so you could have a noise free final image.
Hard to say it is a nigh shot, but I believe the effect came out like that in postprocessing. Nice composition. The sky is a bit grainy. I wonder how did it look originaly. Bumping up a bit.
This may well have been taken after dark, long exposure, high ISO and all that. But it seems like a daylight photo. Doesn't meet the spirit of the challenge in my opinion. Having said that, I like the composition. I like the movement in the sky. And I like the grain, which is unusual because I usually don't.
The sky seems too bright for a night shot. I realize that's because the length of the exposure, but I think the sky should have appeared darker to give the appearance of nighttime.
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