Wilmington under the Moon

TristanP

These are stacked for noise and dynamic range. 6 shots at each exposure stacked (2, 4, and 8 seconds @ F/4), then all three exposure stacks flattened and stacked for dynamic range. The moon was also 5 shots stacked for noise reduction pasted after the background was finished. The "halo" around the moon is a slight cloud layer the came and went. This was mainly for practice. Any suggestions for improvement?

Khaos

Very nice. I think the halo works. Moon light.

I like both. They work in different ways.Most will lean towards the color because that's what we're geared for sight wise, but I've always had a fondness for black and white.

Stacking is something I need to try myself. You did a fine job.

snookman23

Tristan,

Good shots. I'll have to add stacking to my list of 10,000,000 things to learn.

I think I prefer the b&w. The color makes the skyline (well, slightly tall buildings) seem out of focus, esp. since your eyes are drawn their.

E-A-G-L-E-S

Higgmeister

Hi Tristan,
I like the color one. I'm a bit partial to what happens to the colors when stacked, they're so smooth. Did you hand align these or did you use an application to do it (like PS CS2's DHR) as I see the issue with the skyline. What I really like about stacked shots is they seem surreal. There is more detail there than the eye can usually see and the brain knows that. Nice job stacking.

Thanks for sharing,
Chris

TristanP

Higgmeister wrote:

Hi Tristan,
I like the color one. I'm a bit partial to what happens to the colors when stacked, they're so smooth. Did you hand align these or did you use an application to do it (like PS CS2's DHR) as I see the issue with the skyline. What I really like about stacked shots is they seem surreal. There is more detail there than the eye can usually see and the brain knows that. Nice job stacking.

Thanks for sharing,
Chris

Thanks. These were manually aligned, but in the end, I don't think I had to do anything other than paste layers on top of each other - good tripod I guess. I don't see any misalignment, but please, point it out - maybe I'm missing it.

erich6

Nice shot Tristan.

What blend mode did you use in your stacks?

Erich