New Booties over Boggle Hole

[themos]

I took this shot Wednesday night, in Yorkshire, about 9:15pm. It was dark. You can see the moon lighting up part of the rock on the left. The 450D was wearing the standard kit lens, at 18mm f/3.5 and the exposure was 13 seconds@ISO1600.

The lovely coloured double Nu Bootes is plainly visible in the top quarter and centre of the picture. I can also see Arcturus on the far right, Corona Borealis in the middle and the flowerpot asterism of Hercules (with M13).

I am not quite sure how we are supposed to show larger images than this.

[Imahumanbeing]

Very nice picture Themos!

[Mick.G.]

A nice image themos,

Your pic' enlarged on my screen ok.

Mick.G.

[Psychobilly]

Nicely done I do like "moonlit" shots

Needs just a little tweak to have a "horizontal" horizon maybe... and just a tad of lens correction...

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Peter

[Dangerous-Dave]

Nice shot, I like the weird "daytime" look of a moonlit sky with stars.

[themos]

Thanks Psychobilly, can you tell me which software you used for these corrections?

Dangerous-Dave, I do like the blue sky with stars too!

[Psychobilly]

Hi Themos,

I used Adobe CS4 but lens correction has been in the "series" for quite a while its under filter -> distort -> lens correction...

And then Just rotated the image (Image -> rotate canvas -> abitrary) whilst checking the horizon against a guideline.. I normally do a coarse adjustment then set it to say 0.1 degree and keep re-applyign it till its right... I then drag in 2 horizontal and 2 vetical guidelines to set the cropping... as the image has been pin-cushioned to correct the barrel distortion form the wideangle lens.

Like all these things they it a lot better to apply them to the hires image...

Peter...

[themos]

Thanks. GNU/Linux application "krita" has the rotation and lens correction tools too. I just need to learn about them!

[Psychobilly]

My nikon D200 has a thirds grid that can be turned on inthe viewfinder or LCD, With the canons use a paiir of focus zone markers to give you a reference..

Glad you have found similar functionality in a GNU app as it's a nighmare trying to get a horizontal horizon at night...

Peter...