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I normally do NOT  like shooting thru glass, here i made an exception to see what i could come up with. 'The Oculus Thru Glass" Q3 28, cropped,  NYC. 

 

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7 hours ago, ntyilontyilo said:

In the Glow of the Night

This is another special night composition where I combined one shot taken at late dusk with 400 ISO with the stars from another shot taken at darkest night 1 hour later I edited the sky of the dusk shot in order to appear brighter and did a lotof manual corrections at the night shot to get even the smallest stars into a mask. We are looking over the mountains of Tegernsee in the foreground to the chan of Karwendel far behind at the left side, followed by Wetterstein with Zugspitze at ithe end of the chain a bit right from the center. At the right side we can sse some part of Oberammergauer als and the bavarian pre-alps near Lenggries.

 

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I love your technique that gets these fabulous results.  I have tinkered a bit with the Q3 but not with the success you have.

What software are you using?

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Denver Botanic Gardens light show.

 

 

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vor 5 Stunden schrieb Aram Langhans:

I love your technique that gets these fabulous results.  I have tinkered a bit with the Q3 but not with the success you have.

What software are you using?

Thank you, this was the first time I tried to make a composition from 2 shots taken at identical camera position, one at dusk and one at darkest night. I was always waiting for perfect conditions for night shots without that effort, but therefore you need to:

• get the shot when quarter moon is there during the night and it is in the right direction to illuminate the landscape
• have good weather at that time
• have enough free time to get at a given place and realize it

In most cases, at least one of those conditions was not there. I already had seen some beautiful pictures taken with that technique so I thought about treeing it myself. The big advantage is, if you can take a shot at disk and at night without any moonlight, you'll get 2 relatively perfect shots. 

I tried f 1.7, 2.0 and 2.5 with the Q3. Coma was nearly not visible with 2.5. I needed to use 3200 ISO but with moderate (!) denoise in Lightroom this was nothing to worry (never use denoise with 100 % unless you like the massiv artifacts with structures appearing soft and painted).
I often mask the sky in Lightroom too in order to be able to edit it separately.

For final composition, I opened both pictures in Photoshop and made a mask for the stars which was most of the work. I could only get even the smallest stars without manual corrections. When I copies and pasted them into the dusk picture, they were not intense enough, do I used an additional layer for exposition of the stars. 

Finally I would say, besides software techniques, for best results you should shoot the Q3 with f 2.5 for stars if it is possible.

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Q3 28 12-25-24 Boulder Colorado front range.

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los 60 megapixeles del sensor maestro de mi LEICA Q3, merecen la pena desde el primero hasta el último. 📷 👌

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17 minutes ago, riverstone said:

Yes, very close to HW 98 and 128. Here is the exact location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/gq54z7b9Zsm9Srrs9

Ok, got it, just between 128 and Marshall Rd off of Hwy 93.  If you get a chance and if you have not done so already, there is a trailhead just south of 93 & 128 on the right hand side.  Take the Vista Trail.  Very similar views as the image you took, but from a different perspective.  It is about an easy 3 mile hike.  Nice mix of open grassland and some wooded areas.  

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By day, it looks like a Christmas Day Massacre.

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But by night they rise like the Phoenix, to celebrate again.

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Getting deposits of bottle and cans is a big thing in Germany. You see a lot of people busy with this to earn some money...

Berlin, Germany, Q3 28

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On 12/23/2024 at 11:50 AM, Patrick NL said:

Berlin, Germany, Q3 28

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especially also this one. I asume you use the perspective correction in lightroom. ?

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22 minutes ago, jjroroek said:

especially also this one. I asume you use the perspective correction in lightroom. ?

Thank you for your compliment!

Yes, I do use Lightroom. 99.9% of everything I do is done in Lightroom. You have to correct with buildings and vertical lines in view, certainly if you point your camera a bit up or down. It is not always possible to correct it, mostly because you would lose to much like the tip of a tower, that detail on the side, etc. But with a 28 (26!) mm it is not that extreme. In most cases I think it improves the image if you correct it.

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When the Yorkshire Wolds sulk (Q3 28)

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