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Post by noctal on Jul 7, 2018 15:47:46 GMT
The NLC image on July 7 Astro Pic of the Day: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180707.htmlis impressive, but I think it should be classified as an artistic composite rather than a picture. Does Ruslan Merzlyakov post here? I am interested in how he generated it. I do multi-hour composites and time-slices, which can be quite effective, but I always advertise them for what they are. I also support playing with contrast, brightness, gamma, bracketed HDR to help the image match our visual experience. But there are a few too many issues in this image that rub me the wrong way: - the sky gradation just doesn't look natural; - how is the ground being illuminated? Limited flashlight/torch painting is okay to some extent - why is there orange twilight on the left, when the pink clouds are lit from the right? Regards, Alister. P.S. Good NLC season so far from Alberta Canada.
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Post by johnm on Jul 8, 2018 12:37:07 GMT
The EXIF data for this image seems reasonable for a single image but shows it has been edited in photoshop.
A lot of the EXIF data from the images on the Spaceweather.com NLC gallery seems to be unrelated to the actual image.
John
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Post by sonic on Jul 10, 2018 20:47:48 GMT
Lightroom Personally I really like that image and it looks nice n natural to me - looks like he's used a gradient darkening of the top left corner which is quite obvious though. Lightroom is a digital photographers dream development studio; its able to make the very best from raw files and bring images to life in stunning detail and colour - Love it to bits .. Check out some youtube tutes on Lightroom .. An example of a 6 shot panorama before and after raw processing: Attachments:
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