Night Sky

The image was not tweaked in Photoshop. This was taken on slide film, with a shutter time of around 30 seconds. The slide was scanned in a Nikon 4000 at 4000 DPI to a TIFF, and then converted to jpeg for web upload with ImageMagick. The only settings used on the command line were quality, shave (to remove about 50 pixels on each edge), normalize, and of course resize.

If had Photoshop and used it, the first thing I would have done was to take out the lens flare in the bottom right, and then if you look close, and airplane crossed part of the frame, it goes thru the big dipper.

Remember that on long exposures film starts doing funny things, and each color layer does funny things in different ways, hence color shifts that are hard to filter out and grain.

Also the frame had mixed lighting, the sky, a few porch lights from the other houses, and light at the bottom of the frame from street lights a block or two away, some were mercury and some were sodium.