Second City Lights
by kirbic

Comment by MaryO:
Not always a fan of cityscapes but this is quite lovely. Great perspective and the lights have such a pretty golden glow to them.

Second City Lights
by kirbic

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
I'll be curious to see if this does better than my own shot of the same that I entered in "low key".

Flowering Crab After The Rain
by kirbic

Comment by Cyrilda:
Beautiful shot. I love the DOF.

Riomaggiore
by kirbic

Comment by CEJ:
Captured the essence and feel of this place perfectly I think. I love it! (None of my pics of this place do it justice at all.)

Message edited by author 2018-11-08 17:45:00.

Riomaggiore
by kirbic

Comment by Teafran:
Ah - the Cinque Terre village of Roimaggiore. beautiful place. Visited there years ago and really enjoyed myself. Nice capture and a high mark just for nostalgia's sake.

Milky Way Over Coconino
by kirbic

Comment by jomari:
Wow!

Beneath the Wonder of the Night Sky
by kirbic

Comment by CNovack:
Beautiful capture - a big congrats Fritz on the Yellow Ribbon!!!

Beneath the Wonder of the Night Sky
by kirbic

Comment by JulietNN:
Absolutely gorgeous! People find it hard to believe that there are really that many stars when you look up in a an AZ sky! You have a fabulous shot!

Beneath the Wonder of the Night Sky
by kirbic

Comment by kirbic:

Originally posted by scalvert: Wow, 13 years, and your last ribbon was a photo of stars, too. Obviously you should get outside more often. I'm impressed that you dared to venture into Pixinsight's deep, muddy waters. Here's a little trick you might find useful... in Photoshop, select Color Range > Highlights with a pretty big fuzziness value to catch most of the stars. Select > Modify > Expand by 4 or 5 pixels, then hide the selection. Choose Filter > Other > Minimum with a radius of about 0.4 pixels (preserve roundness), and see if that helps.

Ha, yes I do need to get out more, LOL. I finally have a UWA lens that I'm really satisfied with for astro work. Pixinsight has been "fun" to learn, the user interface can be quite daunting to the uninitiated. Thank goodness for lightvortexastronomy.com!

Beneath the Wonder of the Night Sky
by kirbic

Comment by scalvert:
Wow, 13 years, and your last ribbon was a photo of stars, too. Obviously you should get outside more often. I'm impressed that you dared to venture into Pixinsight's deep, muddy waters.

Here's a little trick you might find useful... in Photoshop, select Color Range > Highlights with a pretty big fuzziness value to catch most of the stars. Select > Modify > Expand by 4 or 5 pixels, then hide the selection. Choose Filter > Other > Minimum with a radius of about 0.4 pixels (preserve roundness), and see if that helps.