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 I got out tonight to have dinner with a friend at a local 'upscale' shopping plaza. I shot a few pictures wandering around the storefronts, then stopped on the way home to shoot a scene I had seen driving by many times. I fired off about three attempts and then was trying to get the moon in the shot as well when my battery died!! Murphy's Law strikes! Anyway, this is one of the three images I did get. I forgot and left the ISO at 3200 which made the image extremely noisy. But I ran it through Neat Image and it cleaned up nicely I think. The dark areas of the sky and water are a bit mottled, but overall I am pretty pleased. It is very much like the image I saw in my head. Addendum 12/07/2005 Just a couple of clarifications. The red streak is indeed the taillights of cars passing on a road on the other side of the water. Just chance that I did not pick up headlights. This was an 8 second exposure at f16 at ISO 3200. I wish I had dropped the ISO a bit, but, hey, I FORGOT! The white 'smoke' from the plant is, in fact, mostly water vapor, not 'smoke' in the sense we usually think of it. The industrial plant is a processing facility for Light Weight Aggregate. They simply 'bake' locally mined shale in a high temperature furnace, fueled in part by hazardous wastes that are consumed in the high temperature. | |
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