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Challenge: Silhouettes IV (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 24mm f/1.4 L USM
Location: Þingvellir, Iceland
Date: Sep 17, 2007
Aperture: 2.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 30 sec
Galleries: Sky, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Sep 18, 2007

 Eh, don´t really think this is all that good of a photo but I haven´t played on DPC since late July (not counting the free studies wich were not taken specifically for DPC) so I decided to submit this one although I don´t think it´ll do too well in this challenge. Hopefully I´ll score points for being a bit unique though but if I came across this and had to vote I´d hardly give it more than a 5.

Went on a Aurora Borealis safari with a bunch of other photographers, including indridistefans and some other DPC members. We didn´t have much luck with the borealis that night, didn´t find any till just before heading home and even when they finally appeared they were very very weak. The spot we were in didn´t have any interesting surroundings so I just decided to stay behind the rest of the people and take some silhouette shot´s, just for fun, wasn´t aware of this challenge at the time. Took a couple of others at 16mm but they didn´t turn out as nice as the weak borealis meant I had to expose more than a minute wich was way too long for anybody to stand still. I will probably get comments that I didn´t get down far enough and I agree, I would have wanted to see the legs of some of the people in there as well but since they were standing in front of a low wall that was no option at all and I went down as low as the tripod would allow me. Anyway, like I said, I think the bottom part is too dark but really nothing I could have done about it except ask everyone to move and I wasn´t about to do that.

Processing was very minimal, raw conversrion, some cropping, shadow/highlights, levels and curves to darken and fix contrast and sharpening after resizing.

Statistics
Place: 27 out of 273
Avg (all users): 6.2158
Avg (commenters): 6.6667
Avg (participants): 5.9524
Avg (non-participants): 6.4245
Views since voting: 2254
Views during voting: 304
Votes: 190
Comments: 15
Favorites: 1 (view)

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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM
 10/03/2007 01:37:36 PM
very nice perspective, huge points for that. great job bud, well done
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Nikon Coolpix A
Panasonic Lumix G 14mm F2.5 ASPH
09/27/2007 09:29:49 AM
yeah, let's start the aurora season again! ;)
congrats, i love that shooting star you captured.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/25/2007 03:38:39 PM
Iceland I imagine. Nice capture
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D5100
Tamron AF 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical for Nikon
 09/25/2007 12:11:35 PM
great shot and subject
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Kodak Z612
Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX Macro AF for Canon
 09/23/2007 09:51:02 PM
nice green glow
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 09/23/2007 03:49:10 AM
has to be in contention to win...9
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Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
 09/21/2007 01:23:34 PM
wow, this is such an interesting shot. I love the capture of stars in the sky, but the people, toward the outer edges (especially the left side) aren't very distinguishable. I still love the photo...score 8!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 09/21/2007 12:10:18 PM
wow
good compestion
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/20/2007 11:08:35 PM
Yeah!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-7D Mark II
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 09/20/2007 10:43:03 AM
Amazing sky wow wow wow...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon Coolpix S6
 09/20/2007 04:25:48 AM
colourfull.not good
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
 09/19/2007 06:49:03 PM
can't see much of the silhouette....
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Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM
 09/19/2007 06:40:16 PM
nice! So often we see silhouettes of trees or houses against the northern lights, but to see observers, and the camera on the right...nice one.
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Pentax K7
Pentax DA 16-45mm f/4.0 ED AL AF
 09/19/2007 01:04:47 PM
Wow, everytime I see pictures like this of the northern lights I just say "Wow". Beautiful color & really nice detail in the stars.
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 09/19/2007 10:42:35 AM
Beautiful.
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