Middle America

Just a little past John Glenn's hometown, on my way back to Pittsburgh from visiting the Air Force Museum. It was very clear, cold and windy, and the stars were shining very brightly after a brilliant but boring cloudless sunset. When I crested the hill and rounded the corner, I suddenly saw this and knew I had to stop and shoot it!

 

I overexposed 2 stops from what the camera thought was a good exposure (it wasn't).

I'd appreciate a look at my recent folders, please.

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Pittsburgh Sights

US Air Force Museum

 

Thanks for looking!

the shadow of the flag pole... hmmm i wish it werent there

If you didn't over expose it would it have been to dark? Just a question. I like it but have mixed feelings of what else you could have done Did you try diffrant exp. and angles ?

Yes, I bracketed. All I got for my efforts was lots more grain and no stars.

 

The other angle was 90 degrees to the right, which was toward where the sun had just set 15 minutes earlier. The sky was lighter, and could be seen through the windows. I thought it was a nice shot, except for a telephone wire that cut across the whole frame. I'm not a firm believer in PhotoShop retouching, but that image (the one that was correctly "over" exposed) would need about 20 minutes with the rubber stamp tool to be presentable.

 

I suppose I could fix the flagpole shadow, and dodge the front of the church a bit to reveal more detail, but that isn't the subject (to me). I see wide, and the subject is the steeple (unusual lighting from below) contrasting against the starry sky, rising above the rest of the building, with the candles in the windows.

 

So the flagpole shadow isn't even there in that picture.

 

Unless I look for it, then it's huge.

 

//Joe