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Joseph Taub
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It's been many years since I posted my work on here, or anywhere else online for that matter. Here's my first step in getting back into it! This was taken last October. These hoodoos are a few minutes outside Zion's east entrance. This is "more or less" a two shot blend. Foreground shot in the blue hour 30 minutes or so after sunset, Milky Way shot about 45 minutes later. I say "more or less" because that's a bit over simplified--there was some considerable hair-pulling involved in blending around that tree!

So I just paste the full URL for the image right? Here goes:

https://pro2-bar-s3-cdn-cf.myportfolio.com/d5b79b991b3ae960efdf3824a22f8a3e/bed045c8-bafb-464e-aa54-c44634a2b5e2_rw_1920.jpg?h=60fa96fa8c004555541d54797e59b543

Gear stuff:
D800e
14-24 @ 14mm
f/5.6, ISO 400, 30 sec foreground
f/2.8, ISO "Hi 2.0" (25600),10 sec sky (I'm pretty pleased with some tricks I came up with to control the iso noise, even at large sizes)

C&C more than welcome, since I've looked at this image so long now, I can't see it totally objectively. Otherwise, enjoy!

Edit: Wow, the image looks way bigger on my screen than I anticipated or sharpened for...what size and/or dpi do you all usually use for the long edge?




Jun 15, 2018 at 03:34 PM
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Sweet Joseph!!! It has been long since Ive seen work from you! I hope you are doing great!!! We will have to catch up sometime.


Jun 15, 2018 at 05:40 PM
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Wow! This is lovely!


Jun 15, 2018 at 06:08 PM
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Beautiful shot. I hope you post more like this!


Jun 15, 2018 at 07:22 PM
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wow. fantastic image


Jun 16, 2018 at 05:36 AM
Joseph Taub
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Mark Metternich wrote:
Sweet Joseph!!! It has been long since Ive seen work from you! I hope you are doing great!!! We will have to catch up sometime.


Thanks Mark, it's nice to hear from you! Hopefully you'll see more work from me soon. I have like a 3 year backlog of various trips to process. And I agree, it would be great to catch up.

Thanks everyone else for the kind words. It's encouraging to hear after putting a lot of work into a photograph.

It is hard to strike the right balance in these Milky Way shots with exposure blends. I am wondering if there are any opinions on the execution or "naturalness" of the blend. I'm going for a look and brightness comparable to a several minute exposure, just without the star trails of course.



Jun 16, 2018 at 09:10 PM





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