The Image: I loved shooting a series of these in my beautiful city. The night was warmish for the end of Autumn. I was in my own little world shooting 30 second exposures. The line in the water is from a light on the font of a canoe as a team went past during the exposure.
The Editing: USM, Levels, Colour Balance, D and B, Noise Ninja...not in that order. I had to go over the stars with the dodge tool to brighten them up. The levels had taken away some of the original shine, but about a 30% dodge bought them back. I know some are going to hate the border, but I love it.
The Prediction: Not sure how well this will do as I am sure there will be many moon, star and out of space shots. But...the "visual impact of your image should be heavily dependent on your depiction of the night sky" which I think this one is. I like the tones.
Perhaps a 6.3??? mainly because the voters will think a little more towards DNMC. But, you never, ever know...
Post: WOW! Finally a red and not a yellow!!! This is a real thrill, thanks for all the comments and the votes and the favourites... I wish there were more stars visible that night, but it wasn't to be
Post, Post: Well there you go! Moved up to a blue. I had so little confidence in this image, but I am so glad it got up. Bad luck about the DQ because that was an amazing image. Mine has been validated by the SC, so I am safe!
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Hey...your comments say you captured this photo "at the end of Autumn". Well then I think this photo should be DQ'd because it currently is the "end of spring" and that proves you did not take the photo in the time frame of the Night Sky challenge.
Hey...your comments say you captured this photo "at the end of Autumn". Well then I think this photo should be DQ'd because it currently is the "end of spring" and that proves you did not take the photo in the time frame of the Night Sky challenge.
Great, great image!
The visual impact of your is indeed heavily dependent on your depiction of the night sky - that's amazing how only a few stars produce this effect. Your postprocessing connecting the buildings to the sky by their brightness and toning is for much in the image's impact.
Congrats
Very, very nice, Enzo. Crisp and clean and sparkling. The title grabs me, too, the lovely Don McClean song for VanGogh. Congrats on your blue, well deserved.
one of my favs of the challenge (what can I say I'm a sucker for city skylines:) and a very beautiful & worthy recipient of a ribbon! good for you Enzo!!
ETA: and not a WHINE waa waa in sight hehehe! YAY!!!
'6.3 & DNMC' .. ARE YOU MAD !!??..:)
this is insanely good .. talk about visual impact ..!!
love the very 'hotpasta' tones ..
CONGRATULATIONS on your red ribbon, an amazingly good score, second place on your profile page and a fantastic image .. !! ..
Crazy score Enzo! Congrats on the ribbon. That puts you one up on me. Gotta get my act together and try and catch up. Cant let you and Irene run away from me. ;)
WTG, Enzo!! I LOVE your blues and greys. 7.7!!! My goodness, this must be the highest red ribbon score ever, congratulations. Btw, I see you're not getting any better at predicting your scores ;-D
Congrats, Enzo! I have to admit I wavered on the night sky DNMC, but ended up deciding it was an important part of the image and gave it an 8. I also love the light flare that seems to connect the city to the sky.
Should have guessed this one was yours, Enzo! Well done on a terific score. It takes a lot to get on your top 5 on your profile page, but you did it :-)
ETA: I forgot to mention you're showing your age a bit with your title ;-)
Wow, hotpasta, this is a very nice photo, enough that I checked to see what type of camera was used and squealed like a little girl when I saw with years of hard work I might be able to do the same. Truly beautiful.
I knew this was yours, absolutely phenomenal, really nice work, keep it up man, definitely adding this to faves. Great job with the toning, really love the blue tint, very nice composition as well, congrats on the nice score as well.
Simply stunning night shot, and luckily some stars to meet the challenge. Incredible contrast and color scheme. I love it. The best non deep space shot in the challenge. =)
Certainly dramatic and excellent -- breathtaking even. It's more about the skyline than the night sky, but I can't quite bring myself to score it lower because of it. An eight for you.
Beautiful, thrilling - the bright white against the deep blue/black. The shining lights and the reflections - very good. A bit of a skew would have been helpful - in my opinion - so that the buildings are not all leaning towards the middle.
The photo is excellent. However, I feel that most of it's excellence is more focused on the buildings rather then the 'Night Sky'. But, I know how that goes as I live in the brightest city in the world and the night sky has all but disappeared. I should give the photo a 9 even though it's really a 9.5. Since there is no 9.5 I'll just round it up to 10. Ok?
Beautiful! The sky itself is not that special, but together with the skyline it works. And DPCers usually like pictures like this one, so it'll do well.
Nice! Blue and grey indeed. The perspective is interesting. I'm not sure your frame works, though. Assuming you have a wide black bar on top as well, that doesn't hurt, it may in fact add to the vastness, but the bar below is disturbing. A long while I thought it was the shore, and was about to suggest a crop, until I realised that it is far too straight for that.
Grat angle and perspective on this shot, I would have liked to see some more of hte stars come through, but that must be hard to do with all those bright city lights.
Starry, Starry Night...Paint Your Palette Blue and Grey
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