geir.kalvatn

Dear friends, again - thank you for all response to my photo!

I can assure you there is no "significant graphic arts manipulation" in this picture. Of course I've adjusted colors, brightness, contrast, sharpness etc. in the RAW-editor (and later in Photoshop), but not anything I would charaterize as manipulation. Of course I have the CANON RAW-file to prove it, but I don't dare to send it to people I don't know to well. I guess you understand !?

-Geir-

I can't believe my photo is chosen as Photograph of the Week !?

First of all: Thanks to all for nice feedback, comments and suggestions!

About the shot: I shot this a late evening January 2006. It was a very cold night (about 10 degrees below zero I guess). The new moon was not giving me much light. I used a headlight when walking around. When shooting in low-light conditions I often determine the exposure-time by checking the histogram. This shot is very much over-exposed compared to the light I was experiencing that night. In this case the exp.time is 80 sec. at f/5,6 400 ISO.

The orange light you see in the background is city-lights reflecting in low clouds. I shot many pictures this evening and some of them have become my best selling pictures ever.

Again - Thank you very much everybody !

-Geir-

Wow - Thanks for all nice comments everybody.

Technical details : 47 seconds, f:5,6 ISO 400

-Geir-

How can this image be improved ?

-Geir-