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12-AUG-2012 Traveller

45 Miles Per Hour

I have purposefully left the left side of the frame open to give a sense of scale and the darkness of the night and still maintain a horizon...or at least I can see one..lol...I was out watching the Perseid meteor shower

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Canon EOS Rebel T1i
6s f/3.5 at 17.0mm iso200 full exif

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Canon Image Challenge14-Aug-2012 04:24
Layers and masking is where the magic is done in Photoshop. You really have to learn how to use those features. Paul
Guest 13-Aug-2012 21:08
I might also note to shu, that the light streak is not unlike a meteor trail itself, except this has the required red. Best Wishes, Traveller
Guest 13-Aug-2012 20:32
In truth, pulling out hot pixels is not that difficult with the Healing Tool in CS5. It is also not a bad thing to be forced to look at your image intensely....this is a third crop to get the feeling I wanted and a smallish telephone pole was also removed from the horizon.

I am a bit ashamed to say this, but I still don't know how to used layers as suggested....or layers & masking at all. I do need to study more.

Best Wishes, Traveller
Michael Kilpatrick13-Aug-2012 13:41
You're correct Paul, but having used long exposure noise reduction a couple of times, I turned it off. I found it too frustrating having to wait after, say, a five minute exposure, while the camera did another 5 minute dark frame. It's even worse if you're shooting star trails and exposing for a couple of hours. Regards, Michael
Canon Image Challenge13-Aug-2012 12:43
You also can go to custom function #2 (1) and invoke long exposure noise reduction which will automatically add a dark frame substitution. I think all Canon DSLR's have that option, but be sure to turn it back off after your done with long exposures or you will be thinking there is something wrong with your camera when you are shooting normal exposures.

If you have a "C1 or C2" (Camera user setting) on your selector dial then you can assign noise reduction to one of them and not have to think about switching it back off, you just switch out of C1 or C2. But, I not sure the Rebel bodies have that option. Paul
Canon Image Challenge13-Aug-2012 11:27
great tip michael! the light streak really grabs attention, trav!! shu
Michael Kilpatrick13-Aug-2012 06:29
Interesting with the faint horizon. I wanted to see/shoot the Perseids too, but it's the middle of winter here and it was overcast.
By the way, regarding hot pixels, if you take a shot with the lens cap in place at the same iso and with the same exposure time, then load it into the image as a new layer, then subtract the layers, it will get rid of most of the hot pixels. That's assuming you have Photoshop though. Regards, Michael
Canon Image Challenge13-Aug-2012 01:31
Thank yoiu, Sam, I think that I see two more hot pixels...sigh...let us do this again, hot pixels are the bane of night shooters.

Traveller
Sam Rua13-Aug-2012 01:08
Very nicely composed and captured.