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ColinHSillerud — The Dancer
Published: 2011-03-15 00:00:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 3850; Favourites: 228; Downloads: 77
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A half moon rose over my shoulder providing the soft foreground illumination about twenty minutes after the sun had set. This is 6 equal exposures blended for focus. Each frame was shot at 2.8 to preserve the fixed stars.My images may not be used without my written permission.
Copyright Colin H Sillerud
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Yet another fine example of the difference between a photograph, and a snap
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Nice compo with the tree, the rock the clouds and the stars. Well done.
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Thanks Gilles! welcome to DA.
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You're welcome. And thank you.
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Beautiful composition Colin, I'm blown away how well these elements in the foreground work with one another, each line leads to another line slightly deeper in the image, the tree acting as a fantastic transition from the foreground to the stars above. very well thought out, and very well executed!
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Thank you Sir! This whole region [upper reaches of Zion] is all lines, lines, lines...
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Hi! Your artwork has been featured here: [link]
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This Is AMAZING!!!! It looks like the tree is danceing!!
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Thanks! I actually changed the name after this comment! Couldn't figure out exactly what I wanted to call it, but your comment said it perfectly! Thanks again.
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Your welcome! Glad I could help. : )
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Great shot, really nicely composed and fine exposure!
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Much appreciated Drew!
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Amazing!
Love that tree, it looks so dramatic, and the stars are subtle but really add to the overall impression of the piece <3
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Haha, I dind't recognize your new image. Quite a change from your last - first looked like a nice bird, but this is like the bird just hit a car at 70mph.
oh it's a paw! didn't see it at first, but it still looks like bloody death.
anyway, glad ya like it! I wanted to do something different and had the halfmoon to balance the twilight. was a tough one though. had about 2 min.s when the illumination was in balance.
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Hahaha! 
And yeah, the paw's supposed to be fairly subtle - it's meant to be a bloody pawprint made by one of my Krovendrakk species
No problem at all, Colin <3 
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love the night sky against this amazing tree and rock.
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The since the only stacking was for focus, the stars/background was all the same shot.
for the technique, i shot 5 exposures [i think], all at f2.8, 400iso, 30s and aligned them with PS's auto align tool, then masked in the portions of correct focus from each shot/layer.
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wonderful capture mate
interesting approach in order to make the stars visible without pushing the ISO too high. how did you finally handle to stars in the exposure stack? i would expect to see star trails or even star copies if you don't mask out the stars for 5 exposures!?
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The since the only stacking was for focus, the stars/background was all the same shot.
for the technique, i shot 5 exposures [i think], all at f2.8, 400iso, 30s and aligned them with PS's auto align tool, then masked in the portions of correct focus from each shot/layer.
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phew, sounds like a lot of work
i thought you were making use of some sort of automatic focus-blending tool / plugin.
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this shot was actually pretty easy. 15 layers in a slot canyon on the other hand... yeah, i think there are plug-ins, but most of them are for speed, not precision. PS is the best for custom work that i've used so far.
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Wonderfully composed, almost reminds me of some of the artwork from LP covers in the '70's
(Richard(?) Dean I think was the artist - albums by the band Yes come to mind) Cheers
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Brilliant image!
I am a freelance artist and would like your permission to use this image for a painting?
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Thanks for asking! I would like to see some of your work first before I give permission. Might you be able to take a couple shots and post them on here?
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Very interesting image. I love the gradation of the sky with the stars. The comp works well here and the cloud completes the image. Where was this taken?
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Very interesting image. I love the gradation of the sky with the stars. The comp works well here and the cloud completes the image. Where was this taken?
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Thanks man. Shot it in the upper region of Zion.
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