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Here's an image I just took with my freshly repaired



For some reason it is appearing differently after uploading despite changing it to the srgb colourspace... this has more contrast that I would like.

I see banding on the bottom left hand corner.

did they clean your sensor...... there are a lot of white spots in the sky.......

Owen
That is supurb! How did you hold those dark tones? Any post processing?

Owen,
Good start after a long break!
I love the colour of the sky and those white "dust bunnies".

this is a good shot.

like this a lot.

Steve

Great shot owen and welcome back

Btw, take it back - they left a stamp on the sensor Also quality is too good for a D70

Owen

Awesome photo. The sabbatical worked wonders for you. This is up there amongst the best images from you so far (and there have been a fair few of those!). Keep 'em coming

Owen, that's very nice mate. One of the cows posed for you too.

Thanks for the kind comments folk.

Tonight was the first time I had used the built-in noise reduction and I think it did a fairly good job.

This was a 30second exposure (I hope that cow is okay!) at f4 @ 17mm with the Tokina 12-24.

It is a blend of two images, however they were the same image just adjusted differently in raw shooter - one for the sky and one for the ground. I also adjusted the curves in the sky to make it a little darker but keep the stars bright.

Thanks for all the comments, especially bringing to my attention the dirty sensor!

Mate, I love it! Lovely color saturation and ambience and the bright stars really add to it, this is terrific...

Bit of what I assume is WA distortion, there's a bit of a lean with the verticals (was the camera pointed upwards?), but love the mood and feel to this... That'd look good printed

Great image mate...

Beaut stuff Owen well done, I'm sure your very glad to have your baby back and in good health.

Great shot Owen, the exposure works great with your capture the stars really set off the serenity

Great image and as one other has mentioned, how did you get the cows to remain still for so long.
Good work.

Bodak wrote:Great image and as one other has mentioned, how did you get the cows to remain still for so long.
Good work.

The cows obeyed his order: "Freeze or you'll be shot"

Actually it was the Paul Hogan trick

There's a bit of WA distortion because I was tilting the lens up... I wanted to get the stars in. The shed was actually on a lean already, but the silo wasn't

Very nice Owen

Thanks Glen. Hopefully I can get some more night shots... just need to find some gloves because it's pretty bloody freezing lately.