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Day 05 - Satelite
Day 05 - Satelite
JimyThing


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Camera: Sony DSC-H1
Location: Centreville, VA
Date: Feb 5, 2007
Galleries: Cityscape, Astrophotography
Date Uploaded: Feb 5, 2007

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 This is a first for me. While snapping pictures at the local church, I think I captured a satelite? Hope you can see it bottom right.

A little disappointed b/c it is 4 degrees here tonight, the lens was freezing and caught a frozen finger print on the bottom left or is it a UFO?


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 02/11/2007 04:41:46 AM
Yeah really hard to see,(checked at work) but I think it is just a highflying airplane, but can't change the name now.
 02/10/2007 04:29:21 PM
Hi David.

I have to admit that I am no longer a fan of the 'long-exposure red-shift' light trick that digital cameras often play on us. If you have PS or PS elements, a curve change might correct this, but I find the easiest cheat here is to convert to b/w and eliminate the red altogether.

Your clone tool or healing brush will eliminate the smudges for the most part and even in basic editing, you'll want to eliminate those quickly to save a point or two in the challenges.
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 02/06/2007 12:12:14 PM
nice shot of the steeple. like the red.
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 02/06/2007 08:38:17 AM
Neat shot
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 02/06/2007 12:10:58 AM
That light is a strobe on an aircraft that happened to fly thru your exposure. If you want to see a satellite, I can email you a link that tells you where and when to look for the space station. You don't list exposure time, but I would guess 10 to 15 sec or a little more by the distance that the plane moved.
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 02/05/2007 10:53:29 PM
See, I thought the spot was a muted moon. But what is the string of lights on the right? No satelite I've ever seen looks like a string of lights - maybe that's the UFO. Hm... Otherwise the photo is great - love the orange church on the black background.
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 02/05/2007 10:47:47 PM
Love the centering!
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 02/05/2007 10:46:53 PM
Tee hee. . .me too :) I love the golden glow of the steeple against the velvet black! This is very clean and crisp.

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 02/05/2007 10:31:59 PM
I'm glad you mentioned the frozen fingerprint. I was grabbing for my monitor cleaning cloth!!

Beautiful lighting on this! I don't know about the UFO. It's hard to say without seeing the full size image.
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