30 second exposure, IS0 1600, noise ninja & cloning to smooth out noise and eliminate hot pixels. Curves & contrast.
Thanks for all the feedback! My daughters and I are thrilled at the decent placing for our first challenge! My oldest daughter, Alletta, the tallest one in the photo, was sooooo determined to get this right and hold her hand as still as possible for 30 seconds. We actually did a dozen takes, but it turns out the first one was the best. If I could do it again I'd have provided my daughter some kind of support for her arm and added a bit of foreground light to illuminate the kids. When I smoothed out the background in curves, I think I clipped the silouettes to a dark blue as well.
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Greetings from the Crtique club. First let me welcome you to DPC and the addiction. I like the concept of your image and it meets the challenge well. Let me suggest a method that works pretty good for this type of image and it may help your issues that I see with the image. Long exposures and high ISO arent a good mix. I suggest you try shooting this with 200 ISO and go a longer exposure. Close to the end of your exposure put a black card over the card put your kids out in front and have them point, then remotely manually fire a flash for fill effect. I think that would make your image much stronger then what you have. Great idea and a little change to your method and your over the 6 barrier. Good luck in future challenges.
I love your idea. It has lots of magic but I can't help but wonder if giving the foreground at least a little color would look like. I like that the focus is on the stars but the two people should have a little colour but still out of focus. I'm not saying the shot would have done better. I'm just saying it was a possibility: 7
Interesting, I like the composition and am intrigued as to how you put this together. I would have liked to see darker silhouettes and no double edges such as by her pointing hand.
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