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Starry Night
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Challenge: Free Study XV (Advanced Editing IV)
Collection: Challenge Entries
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Jersey City, NJ across the river to New York, NY
Date: Nov 10, 2006
Aperture: f3.5
ISO: 100
Shutter: 6 seconds
Galleries: Cityscape, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Nov 20, 2006

 Shot from the patio at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Jersey City, NJ, at about 10:30pm. While we were shooting, I mentioned to my brother-in-law how surprised I was that we could see stars aver the New York City skyline. Imagine my joy when they were in my photos as well.

My wife & kids like the color version of this better, but to me it's just a boring old color skyline, probaly good for maybe a 5.5 in a Free Study. Will this do better than that? I hope so, but if it doesn't, at least I submitted something that I really like.

Rotated slightly to straighten out the water line
crop
resize
levels
Noise Ninja
Selected the sky - USM (400, .3, 0)
Selected buildings & water - USM (100, .3, 0)
Adjusted master saturation +20
Selected the sky & water - Noise Ninja
Alien Skin Exposure to convert to black & white
burning around the moon to kill the glare


I hope you like it, because I do.

Statistics
Place: 195 out of 501
Avg (all users): 5.8194
Avg (commenters): 7.2000
Avg (participants): 5.6762
Avg (non-participants): 6.1200
Views since voting: 1078
Views during voting: 214
Votes: 155
Comments: 7
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Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
 12/05/2006 10:49:03 PM
Great job capturing the stars!
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 12/05/2006 08:00:06 PM
a little too much sky for me but I like the image. 7
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-50D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 12/03/2006 01:33:23 PM
Wow, All this and the moon too! Fantastic entry.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Tamron AF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 Di LD Macro 1:2 for Canon
 12/02/2006 09:40:56 PM
is that Orion in the sky? Top right...i think so!
Good shot. It would be nice to have more detail, but I really like the reflection of the lights in the water.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Canon EF 135mm f/2.0 L USM
 12/02/2006 01:32:11 PM
Very interesting...
Never seen a nightshot like this in BW before.
But it works !
Nicely done.
9.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D70
Tamron AF 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical for Nikon
 12/01/2006 03:04:07 PM
Classic!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 12/01/2006 12:32:15 AM
Beautiful Skyline.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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