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Searching for Shooting Stars
Searching for Shooting Stars
jlanoue


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Challenge: Searching (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: Chesterville, Maine
Date: Oct 6, 2007
Aperture: 3.5
ISO: 1600
Shutter: B
Galleries: Sky, Astrophotography
Date Uploaded: Oct 7, 2007

30 second exposure, IS0 1600, noise ninja & cloning to smooth out noise and eliminate hot pixels. Curves & contrast.

Thanks for all the feedback! My daughters and I are thrilled at the decent placing for our first challenge! My oldest daughter, Alletta, the tallest one in the photo, was sooooo determined to get this right and hold her hand as still as possible for 30 seconds. We actually did a dozen takes, but it turns out the first one was the best. If I could do it again I'd have provided my daughter some kind of support for her arm and added a bit of foreground light to illuminate the kids. When I smoothed out the background in curves, I think I clipped the silouettes to a dark blue as well.

Statistics
Place: 38 out of 122
Avg (all users): 5.8310
Avg (commenters): 6.6250
Avg (participants): 5.5319
Avg (non-participants): 5.9789
Views since voting: 1282
Views during voting: 258
Votes: 142
Comments: 11
Favorites: 0


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10/20/2007 10:03:03 PM
Greetings from the Crtique club. First let me welcome you to DPC and the addiction. I like the concept of your image and it meets the challenge well. Let me suggest a method that works pretty good for this type of image and it may help your issues that I see with the image. Long exposures and high ISO arent a good mix. I suggest you try shooting this with 200 ISO and go a longer exposure. Close to the end of your exposure put a black card over the card put your kids out in front and have them point, then remotely manually fire a flash for fill effect. I think that would make your image much stronger then what you have. Great idea and a little change to your method and your over the 6 barrier. Good luck in future challenges.

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/14/2007 03:47:14 AM
Interesting view. I'd like to know how you exposed this and with what equipment. I'll check back on it after the challenge.
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10/14/2007 12:57:25 AM
Some noise and blur issues, but I really like the image.
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10/13/2007 02:42:25 PM
to have kids stand still for a long exposure like this is a dificult task...so not well accomplished...interesting idea though..6
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10/12/2007 08:43:21 PM
I love your idea. It has lots of magic but I can't help but wonder if giving the foreground at least a little color would look like. I like that the focus is on the stars but the two people should have a little colour but still out of focus. I'm not saying the shot would have done better. I'm just saying it was a possibility: 7
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10/12/2007 07:37:14 PM
Excellent
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10/11/2007 02:31:51 PM
Very nice capture of the details in the sky. Great silhouettes of the children, tree, and horizon. Very well done.
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10/09/2007 12:45:44 PM
Nice night shot, the shadows/silhouettes could be dark though in my opinion
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10/09/2007 12:31:38 PM
Blur on the people takes a tad away from the photo.
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10/08/2007 10:11:30 PM
Interesting, I like the composition and am intrigued as to how you put this together. I would have liked to see darker silhouettes and no double edges such as by her pointing hand.
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10/08/2007 05:26:34 AM
nice image
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