Stardust Melody
by Blackbox

Comment by ThingFish:
Lovely dark colors and mood

Stardust Melody
by Blackbox

Comment by bohemka:
Great stratified colors. RGB. Well done getting those stars to pop so crisply. Personally I would have taken a bit of blur brush to the green and blue (and a bit of the red) to reduce the noise. It would have preserved the sharp stars while smoothing the entire image. But of course I also rarely know what I'm talking about. Great stuff.

Stardust Melody
by Blackbox

Comment by Germaine:
The fine lines in the border are terribly distracting.

Stardust Melody
by Blackbox

Comment by gg3rd:
What a variety of colors! It shows some apparent noise. I wouldn't use that border... it distracts and takes the drama away, imo.

Stardust Melody
by Blackbox

Comment by giantmike:
Beautiful colors in the sky. I'm not sure if this is the shape of the clouds, but I'm detecting a lot of noise in the sky, which is bringing the quality of the image down a bit.

Obvious tripod use: Medium. I bet that's a shock! Why do I say medium? It's because of the amount of light in the sky, and the very few stars in the sky. This looks like it could be a fast enough exposure using high iso (remember the noise that I was detecting) to be handheld. I'm sure it's done with a tripod, but I wanted to give you my gut feel.

Western Skies by Chris LeDoux
by Blackbox

Comment by MinsoPhoto:
Fantastic use of negative space.

Western Skies by Chris LeDoux
by Blackbox

Comment by smichener:
One of my favorite songs by my favorite artist! Nice shot, but I'm not sure the portrait orientation works for me, nor the border. Great colors and I do like the mountains at the very bottom. Not voting.

Stardust Melody
by Blackbox

Comment by ti_evom:
Obvious use of a tripod, or any other long-term stabilization tool (1-10 *is not the score of the shot though*): 10
The silhouette of the mountain is sharp and there's small signs of star trails. The noise is a bit too much though and ruins a shot that could look very pretty if it were more clean.

Stardust Melody
by Blackbox

Comment by Jutilda:
Perfect title. The colors are surprising. You don't usually see green. I like it a lot.

- october -
by Blackbox

Comment by mbrutus2009:
Cool! I wish I could have seen the moon this color!