An original location about 500-700 feet down in what I call the "crack" on one of the goose neck bends on the Glen Canyon. A very favorite and special place of mine to solo camp. I set my alarm to get up to do some night shots and was greeted with just enough moon light from behind/right to not have to do an outrageously high ISO capture. The bright light in the scene is not the moon, it is Venus. Also if you look very carefully, the moon is reflected in the clouds on the right!
In camera noise reduction (dark frame) was used. It is a single raw file, double processed for noise reduction. One with no Luminance noise reduction and just a little capture (deconvolution) sharpening (30pts) for the land. The other with no capture sharpening and an appropriate amount of Luminance noise reduction for both the sky and water.
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Nice shot Mark. Great job with the exposure. Only nitpick I have is that Venus is screwing with my eyes. It's just a touch distracting and I think it's due to the reflection on the water. Though, the more I stare at this the less is bothers me.
jord217 wrote:
Nice shot Mark. Great job with the exposure. Only nitpick I have is that Venus is screwing with my eyes. It's just a touch distracting and I think it's due to the reflection on the water. Though, the more I stare at this the less is bothers me.
Thank you very much J for the compliment and feedback. I agree that some will find it distracting. I think cloned out would work too. Though it mesmerizes me.
Just put the second version with it cloned out for those who may not like Venus.
Love the landscape, not so much the sky. Just feels blurry to me, gives me a headache looking at it...but the landscape is wonderfully exposed full of detail.
Pretty cools shot here, it's always nice when the moon can give a helping hand to light the scene up. #2 without venus is my choice. I think with Venus in it, the left side of the shot is just too heavy.
Jim
Jan 18, 2014 at 10:55 PM
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Matt Leitholt wrote:
Great job! One of the best shots I've seen there.
Thank you very much Matt. Just to reiterate this is not Horseshoe Bend. Although very similar, this is one of the 3 other major good-neck "bends" in the Glen Canyon area.
This is a wonderful shot. I like the clouds showing movement beneath the stars.
As far as Venus goes, I like it with it because it's supposed to be there. What I do with the moon when it's on the edge of the frame making it egg-shaped, is to push it back to round. This looks like a case for that tool on Venus and it's reflection.
