Under the winter sky

I accidentally deleted the previous version, so rapid repost. Any

comments for this? Thank you for your feedback.

Beautiful work Alpo! Regards, Catalin

are those stars real? the trees are so sharp and detailed they seem unreal against a most beautiful twilight sky. this really is nice Alpo, a jaw dropper for me. tell me how you did it. a composite, straight ??? i'm dying to know. very, very nice. regards, J.K.

Another great one :-)

Thank you all for your brightening comments!

 

J.K.: Yup, these are all real. I don`t do background changes. :-) This was shot with a long exposure, using 24mm lens and tripod. Then I made the adjustments to get the snow on the trees to about right. The shooting place was such, that behind of me were some distant lamps from downhill slope (the reddish cast) and to the left from me was a distant lamp post (the bluish cast). Sharpened and Noise Ninja-filtered... :-) I liked this one a lot, but the response has been some what lame... Maybe it feels too artificial... :-) Thank you so much for your comment, it made my day.

 

Alpo

I guess my question now that i know this is not a composite is - to keep the stars from becoming trails, you must have had some kind of equatorial tracking motor mount. what confuses me is that if you were tracking the heavens against the rotation of the earth, then the trees should be blurred? or is it such that way up in your part of the world that pointing north reduces the effect of earth's rotation in a longer exposure? anyway, this is a real jewel that you can be very proud of.

 

p.s. i'm not sure what that tower is in my paris shot. it is worth looking into, and when i find out, i'll let you know. take care my friend, J.K.

Hello again, J.K.!

 

:-) Nope, unfortunately I dont have any such motoring. Just plain old Manfrotto tripod. The trick is to shoot at the shorter exposure time than what is the focal length of the lens. So, if I remember right, this was shot at 20 seconds, f:4, 400 ISO... As the lens is 24mm, this makes the exposure time just conveniently shorter than the focal length. If you could view this in full size, it would have a small amount of visible star movement... :-)

 

I will post some more photos, shot during this evening, that are being exposed for 25-30 seconds. Let`s see what they look in the P.N..

 

Oh, and thank you so much for your kind comments! I really do appreciate them a lot!!!