Light Pollution * by Jon Stern 3rd place by Canon DSLR Challenge

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by Jon Stern
3rd place


11-APR-04	Jon Stern

This was created by stacking eight separate images.

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Paul Sumi		21-Apr-2004 21:13
Oh - I mistook the stacking process for stitching images together (as in a pano). The software looks interesting, but obviously works best with static scenes such as this.

Guest		20-Apr-2004 04:33
No, I stacked to minimise the noise in the final image. The dynamic range of the scene was pretty huge, owing to some extremely bright flood lights. I wanted to minimise the noise (I even shot at ISO 100) so that I could bring up some of the shadow details without them becoming too noisy. I shot raw, converted to TIFFs using C1 and then stacked the images using Image Stacker with the "Average all images" setting.

Paul Sumi		20-Apr-2004 01:32
I like this very much, and think the B&W gives a much stronger sense of drama than the color version. Am curious why you "stacked" images - distance from the plant?

Guest		19-Apr-2004 03:05
Here it is in colour:http://www.pbase.com/image/28097893

Canon DSLR Challenge		18-Apr-2004 21:34
Looks great - I'd like to see a color version... -Ed Hahn

Guest		17-Apr-2004 17:24
No, no, Phil. He copied my idea by reading my mind ;-) It does look like a Borg cube, doesn't it! Actually I would have been less worried about photographing a Borg cube. I was worried that at any moment I'd be pounced upon as a suspected terrorist.

Guest		17-Apr-2004 09:26
Looks like a piece of a Borg cube. -- Victor

Guest		17-Apr-2004 07:35
There's something abot this image... all those lights kind of remind me of an ocean liner or something... great shot, and no shame in borrowing another idea. Phil

billy webb		14-Apr-2004 04:48
But thats the beauty of this, Every one has a different take on how it should look, This shot had me looking for 5 minutes.

Canon DSLR Challenge		13-Apr-2004 05:21
I know someone submitted a power station photo for the last challenge, but I'd wanted to take a photo of this one for some months and was annoyed that he beat me to it! Oh, well. As Salvador Dali said, "Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." - Jon Stern