matthewsaville Offline Upload & Sell: On
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Wow, this is a gorgeous image! Truly a fantastic scene to capture, and I'm also admiring your setup, the Fuji and the Rokinon...
Along the lines of what Jim Fox said, I do find myself wishing there had been a little bit more "data" captured to help post-production look a little bit better.
I honestly don't mind the vignetting as much, I feel it helps draw attention towards the center of the frame. However like Jim mentioned, I too would ask, did you also make a 30 sec exposure? What about an ISO 6400 exposure? I think a brighter original exposure would have allowed you to darken it back down in post-production, creating less actual noise even despite a higher ISO. I'm especially noticing some color patterning from blue to purple in the sky on the middle-left, that is sometimes indicative of post-production being used to brighten a photo.
Overall though, job well done. Just keep experimenting at star / nightscape / astro-landscape photography! That's the beauty of digital; we can experiment with exposures, focusing, and post-production all relatively freely, and master the craft to at least some degree almost "overnight". Pun intended?
=Matt=
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