![]() It was the third hottest day in recorded history and we were feeling every bit of it here in the middle east, with some thin clouds looming in the north, fine dust lacing the wind and a moon promising to breach the sky at around 11pm. So here's the thing, perfection doesn't exist, and neither do perfect astrophotography conditions (not here on earth at least). The Crescent Nebula (HOO) by Ali Alobaidly, on Flickr The Crescent Nebula (HOO) - APOD submission Obviously the Earth is not stationary, as it is the rotation of the Earth that causes the illusion of the wheeling of the sky.Īnyway, it is indeed a very striking and beautiful picture! Thank you! The sky, by contrast, looks "hyper modern", as people in the past could never have photographed the apparent rotation of the sky this way. This could indeed have been a scene from the days of Vincent van Gogh. I love the "timeless" feeling of the "Earth part" of the picture, where a man is resting on a field and contemplating the sky, leaning against a bale of hay. The Circle Of Life by Pierandrea Folle, su Flickr "I like the night very much, I feel much better at night than during the day, just like the madmen and artists who prefer the night." (Letter to Theo van Gogh, October 23, 1889) The starry sky, the use of colors and composition attention recall alway his works. When I realize this kind of image, like many people noticed, I inspire to Van Gogh. The Universe and sky are in continuous movement and expansion while the bales are synonym of a static object, stopped here waiting patiently to be used by the farmers. If circles and lines seems to dance together, times aspect is the opposite. A game of shape in the frame, completed by the vertical Foreground lines, leading our eye to Polar, the startrail's center. I try to relate thee circles shapes of the srars caused by Earth moving and the same shape of bale. This year I've done this amazing 4 hours long startrail while I stargazing. Every time the bales were moved some days before my planned shot. Likewise with whites.īrugge_sepia.PierandreaFolle wrote: ↑ Wed 3:44 pm □□□ □□□□□□ □□ □□□□įinally I was able to realize this photo, planned and in my mind since years. If there are no blacks in your original, there will be no dark browns in the sepia-toned version. That's why I would suggest converting to greyscale and adjusting brightness and contrast - the more contrast in the original, the better the sepia-toned image will appear. Pixels with intermediate tones (greys) map to the intermediate tones in the gradient map. afphoto file with the history saved and using your two colours - hope it's close to what you want.ĪDD: To explain a little further - the Gradient Map adjustment maps the left-hand blob (your brown) to the darkest (black) pixels in the original, and the right-hand blob (your beige) maps to the lightest (white) pixels. Use a single Gradient Map, with the blend mode set to Normal, with your darker colour set to the left-hand end and your lighter colour set to the right-hand end. A further suggestion - convert the image to greyscale, adjust brightness and contrast to give a 'punchy' black and white image, convert back to RGB, then apply a Gradient Map.ĭon't use the "Lighter Colour" and "Darker Colour" blend modes.
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