I reprocessed this image after being reminded on CloudyNights on how to use SIRIL to do the histogram stretching before bringing the image into Photoshop for further tweaks. I'm constantly amazed how much of astrophotography is learning how to develop the image after you capture the data. Mind boggling what our cameras can capture in the dark of night.
I'm still shocked I was able to take this with a 70-300 AF-P lens.
lukemeup wrote:
What's the story behind all those mummified creatures?
As far as the subjects are concerned, some I've had for years having found them in their natural habitat, some have been given or lent to me by people who have done the same. Others are more recent acquisitions.
The following is a paragraph or two taken from my website about the series.
"Much of my work celebrates light, colour and life. The series ‘Dark Times’ deviates towards the dark, the monochromatic and mortality. The work is being shot during the Covid-19 pandemic here in the UK: The darkest of times.
The series includes motifs concerning mortality, religious doctrine, beauty and decay.
No lives are harmed in the making of these images, including my own. Producing the series continues to be a surprisingly therapeutic process."
Pablo Picasso: "And then I understood what painting really meant. It's not an aesthetic process; it's a form of magic that interposes itself between us and the hostile universe, a means of seizing power by imposing a form on our terrors as well as on our desires. The day I understood that, I had found my path."
Just going to say several GREAT captures shown above, and I really appreciate it when the photographer lists the camera, lens and lens data used for the image -- thank you to all who do that!
