QWK SVT
10-27-2008, 10:21 AM
This was taken a few weeks ago, but took a while for me to clean it up... Thoughts would be appreciated (including feedback on workflow, from keeners;)).
http://qwksvt.com/Sharing/Midnight-sm.jpg
For those more interested, the picture was shot is a parking lot, under yellow light. With flash looked awful, so I used a 4-sec exposure to grab as much detail as possible, with the very DARK lighting and no flash. I think I still managed to make it work at 100ISO, tho would've upped it, if I had more time; although it wasn't exactly busy at 11PM, building security ran me off (after only taking 4 pictures).
So I didn't have a perfect capture to work with, but really liked what I had to work with... The post done:
Minor rotation and crop of image
Touched up an aberrition that appeared above the driver's side
Another shot of the moon was taken (on a tripod and at greater zoom), and after a resize was pasted over the moon from the original (4-sec exp results in just a very bright overhead light)
B&W filter applied to the car (except lights, obviously) and foreground, to leave the blues in the night sky
Other minor touch up and a quick adjustment of levels
Although I know less foreground would be a little better, I've left it at this crop, because I'm thinking of printing an 8x10 to hang on the wall
For anyone interested, here's a link to the original (untouched) image: http://qwksvt.com/Sharing/DSCF0619.jpg
http://qwksvt.com/Sharing/Midnight-sm.jpg
For those more interested, the picture was shot is a parking lot, under yellow light. With flash looked awful, so I used a 4-sec exposure to grab as much detail as possible, with the very DARK lighting and no flash. I think I still managed to make it work at 100ISO, tho would've upped it, if I had more time; although it wasn't exactly busy at 11PM, building security ran me off (after only taking 4 pictures).
So I didn't have a perfect capture to work with, but really liked what I had to work with... The post done:
Minor rotation and crop of image
Touched up an aberrition that appeared above the driver's side
Another shot of the moon was taken (on a tripod and at greater zoom), and after a resize was pasted over the moon from the original (4-sec exp results in just a very bright overhead light)
B&W filter applied to the car (except lights, obviously) and foreground, to leave the blues in the night sky
Other minor touch up and a quick adjustment of levels
Although I know less foreground would be a little better, I've left it at this crop, because I'm thinking of printing an 8x10 to hang on the wall
For anyone interested, here's a link to the original (untouched) image: http://qwksvt.com/Sharing/DSCF0619.jpg