February07 - Nightscape

electrolyte · 13-02-2007, 7:14 PM

Taken on Sunday 11 February from Meersbrook Park in Sheffield. Get a great view of Sheffield from there. This is a composition of 6 vertically taken shots which have been stitched together using Autostitch.

Once the panorama had been created by Autostich I did the following in Photoshop:

- Cropped the bits of the panorama at the edges that weren't straight
- Levelled the horizon
- Did a colour balance to reduce the orange cast on the photo
- Upped the contrast of the sky a lot and the ground slightly
- Removed a few dust spots
- USM
- added black bars at the top and bottom of the image
- wrote the title at the bottom

Exif was the same for all 6 individual images:

Camera - Canon 350D
Lens - 18-55 USM Kit
Focal Length - 55mm
Shutter Speed - 30s
Aperture - F/8
ISO - 100
Date picture taken - 11/02/07
Time - from 19:02 to 19:06

View a larger version of the image here

vulkan75 · 13-02-2007, 7:37 PM

Hi si,

thats an absolute belter

I cant believe its sheffield,It reminds me of the veiw of hollywood you see in the movies sometimes(when two lovers park their convertible on the hill type scene)

Love the sky,and the fact thats its a pano.......strong entry

Everyone hold on to your hats......Here come the big boys entries

**senu** · 13-02-2007, 7:42 PM

Its certainly a "nightscape" It is fascinating

Regardless of how it does in the comp it is very definitely a keeper!

Your creativity is to be commended

Very well done

PS:How did you get the writing on it??

bodoman · 13-02-2007, 7:46 PM

What a great Digital Montage (only joking)

I have to admit i really like it, especially with the amount of work you put in to achieve the final result, thats dedication to the art.

Well done

Liquid101 · 13-02-2007, 8:14 PM

Nice Image - great colour in the sky. I must give this panarama lark a go one day, seems to work a treat. Sheffield never looked so good!

Not sure I like handwriting though, find it a bit distracting.

Holowlegs · 13-02-2007, 8:28 PM

Hi there

I like it and this could be in the running.

Cheers Holo

jamesbryan17 · 13-02-2007, 8:44 PM

Great shot

bowenjones · 13-02-2007, 8:49 PM

Superb image Simon

Great composition and I love the colour of that sky

electrolyte · 13-02-2007, 8:57 PM

Thanks for the nice comments guys.

Quote:

Originally Posted by senu

PS:How did you get the writing on it??

I downloaded this font and used it to write onto the photo using photoshop.

**Zone** · 13-02-2007, 9:15 PM

Agree with senu, a definate keeper Si, very well executed and the final result is a belter

jamesbryan17 · 13-02-2007, 9:32 PM

It's a great font

M-C-P-M · 13-02-2007, 10:15 PM

Thats a really great shot and without a doubt it's a "Nightscape"
Very nice

wabbitt · 13-02-2007, 10:30 PM

Ah Bugger... this is brilliant. Excellently shot, and nails the theme.

This competition gets harder and harder every month.

Great Job.

Biscuit761 · 13-02-2007, 11:21 PM

Superb shot, will now ditch all my efforts so far and start again !

Same goes for Wabbits HDR, both are leaders I reckon.

Bill

stevegreen · 14-02-2007, 9:00 AM

Great shot Si. Really strong entry this one.

I'm struggling to think of something different now

Zombane · 14-02-2007, 10:28 AM

It's a brilliant shot and definitely on theme. I can't believe it's Sheffield though...I can't see any burning cars or fields!!! (only joking I'm from Rotherham originally)

electrolyte · 14-02-2007, 10:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bigmoisty

It's a brilliant shot and definitely on theme. I can't believe it's Sheffield though...I can't see any burning cars or fields!!! (only joking I'm from Rotherham originally)

Thanks mate. I believe that buring cars and fields stopped being a problem once you left

Chunder · 14-02-2007, 12:33 PM

Excellent shot - the full version on Flickr is awesome, although the range of subject brightness from the dark foreground and left of image, to the (very) bright right side is kind of distracting. I love the way there are some stars poking through the light pollution, though

Not too keen on the title showing on the picture (seems a bit distracting), and the black borders aren't really my cup of tea - especially as the bottom of the picture is black, and therefore merges into the border...

vulkan75 · 14-02-2007, 5:28 PM

Quote:

Thanks mate. I believe that buring cars and fields stopped being a problem once you left

LMHO

**Zone** · 14-02-2007, 7:00 PM

Originals received from Simon and exif

Puli · 14-02-2007, 7:21 PM

Now thats what I call a nightscape... Really good

Trouble is how is this going to get beat?..........

Paul

Butch499 · 14-02-2007, 7:39 PM

quote: All of the above !!!

Great stuff!

electrolyte · 14-02-2007, 8:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chunder

Excellent shot - the full version on Flickr is awesome, although the range of subject brightness from the dark foreground and left of image, to the (very) bright right side is kind of distracting. I love the way there are some stars poking through the light pollution, though

Not too keen on the title showing on the picture (seems a bit distracting), and the black borders aren't really my cup of tea - especially as the bottom of the picture is black, and therefore merges into the border...

Thanks mate. I have to say that I agree with you about the range of subject brightness. I found it very difficult to balance the exposure across the 6 images. I guess I ended up with making it too light on the right.

I added the black borders to make the image seem "bigger" as 800 pixels wide make the height pixels a bit small for a pano.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Puli

Now thats what I call a nightscape... Really good

Trouble is how is this going to get beat?..........

Paul

Thanks mate. I don't know though, I can think of at least 3 pics posted so far that are better. Still time to go for others to join that list as well.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Butch499

quote: All of the above !!!

Great stuff!

Thanks!