Taken on the road to Bláfjöll close to Reykjavik, shot just after midnight. Was actually the first time I went out in March to take "nightscapes". This month I have only been doing portraiture and mostly just for assignments wich I didn´t want to post, shots specifically for dpc challenges or my picture a week project that many of you had seen so there was little to choose from to send in this month. If I had posted my favorite photo this month it would be the 9th week photo of Gulli in the Blue Lagoon but I felt that would be cheating a little bit since many of you have seen it. Will probably be one of the last nightscapes I post in a while since it´s getting brighter every day here in Iceland but look out for them again in October.
Anyway, even though I really like this shot I am not as happy with this as many of my previous nightscapse and do NOT predict this a top 10 placing as my two previous free study entries have placed this year, I am guessing it will score somewhere between 6-6.5 and if that happens I´ll be quite happy :)
Moon actually helped out a lot in this one and I didn´t have to process much at all, just raw conversion, curves and removed a street sign in the lower right corner, sharpened after resizing.
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Just curious... How tall are those mountains?
The image is so surreal I can't really tell the true perspective.
Oh not tall at all, would rather classify them as hills rather than mountains, I don´t really have a good feel for height of landscape so take this with a grain of salt but probably only 50-100 meters higher than the ground below.
AMAZING! How do you accomplish this? A well-lit foreground, a sunsetting sky, and a dark, star-lit night? This is one of the best photos I have ever seen.
Love it, yet again. Those needle-point stars just scream 5D+24/1.4L. What a beautiful cloudscape and landscape the moon has revealed here.
It's good to know that the darkness will son be fading for you, and may give me a chance to compete with nightscapes through the summer months!
Right then, joke's on me as I now have to plough through 564 images and bump them all (yes, all of them) up. There'll be a third run through for fine tuning. It's day two now and I'm running late, sorry.
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