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Challenge: Silhouettes IV (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L USM
Location: Þingvellir, Iceland
Date: Sep 17, 2007
Aperture: 2.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 30 sec
Galleries: Sky, Landscape
Date Uploaded: Sep 18, 2007
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Eh, donīt really think this is all that good of a photo but I havenīt played on DPC since late July (not counting the free studies wich were not taken specifically for DPC) so I decided to submit this one although I donīt think itīll do too well in this challenge. Hopefully Iīll score points for being a bit unique though but if I came across this and had to vote Iīd hardly give it more than a 5.
Went on a Aurora Borealis safari with a bunch of other photographers, including  indridistefans and some other DPC members. We didnīt have much luck with the borealis that night, didnīt find any till just before heading home and even when they finally appeared they were very very weak. The spot we were in didnīt have any interesting surroundings so I just decided to stay behind the rest of the people and take some silhouette shotīs, just for fun, wasnīt aware of this challenge at the time. Took a couple of others at 16mm but they didnīt turn out as nice as the weak borealis meant I had to expose more than a minute wich was way too long for anybody to stand still. I will probably get comments that I didnīt get down far enough and I agree, I would have wanted to see the legs of some of the people in there as well but since they were standing in front of a low wall that was no option at all and I went down as low as the tripod would allow me. Anyway, like I said, I think the bottom part is too dark but really nothing I could have done about it except ask everyone to move and I wasnīt about to do that.
Processing was very minimal, raw conversrion, some cropping, shadow/highlights, levels and curves to darken and fix contrast and sharpening after resizing. |
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10/03/2007 01:37:36 PM |
| very nice perspective, huge points for that. great job bud, well done |
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09/27/2007 09:29:49 AM |
yeah, let's start the aurora season again! ;)
congrats, i love that shooting star you captured. |
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09/25/2007 03:38:39 PM |
| Iceland I imagine. Nice capture |
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09/25/2007 12:11:35 PM |
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09/23/2007 09:51:02 PM |
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09/23/2007 03:49:10 AM |
| has to be in contention to win...9 |
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09/21/2007 01:23:34 PM |
| wow, this is such an interesting shot. I love the capture of stars in the sky, but the people, toward the outer edges (especially the left side) aren't very distinguishable. I still love the photo...score 8! |
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09/21/2007 12:10:18 PM |
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09/20/2007 11:08:35 PM |
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09/20/2007 10:43:03 AM |
| Amazing sky wow wow wow... |
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09/20/2007 04:25:48 AM |
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09/19/2007 06:49:03 PM |
| can't see much of the silhouette.... |
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09/19/2007 06:40:16 PM |
| nice! So often we see silhouettes of trees or houses against the northern lights, but to see observers, and the camera on the right...nice one. |
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09/19/2007 01:04:47 PM |
| Wow, everytime I see pictures like this of the northern lights I just say "Wow". Beautiful color & really nice detail in the stars. |
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09/19/2007 10:42:35 AM |
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