Frozen Time

Gallery: LandscapePosted October 2, 20142,744 views13 comments

This long exposure in a single take is an old favourite from one of the most memorable shoots in my life. The colour balance has never sat perfectly with me over the years. I decided this week that perhaps the solution is a monochrome.

70 minute exposure

Comments

13 comments

Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on October 3, 2014 at 12:16 AM

Really like the comp and the monochrome works great. 70 minutes? Film? Star trails look discontinuous? Digital? Hard to figure out and I guess it shouldn't matter. The layering and textures work great.

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Comment posted by Abdullaziz Bin Ali on October 3, 2014 at 9:07 AM

awesome

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Comment posted by Pat Sampson on October 3, 2014 at 9:14 AM

I like the layering and the contrast between the soft water, the textures in the rock and the linear star trails. I like the image and the mood it projects very much. I don't normally care much for star trails but in this case I think the image is much stronger because of them.

As a possible nit is there a line of white (very thin halo) between the mountain and the sky in the upper left corner?

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Comment posted by Gary McGhee on October 3, 2014 at 11:43 AM

I think the monochrome suits the image Kah Kit, wonderful rugged terrain and you've nailed the composition.

Cheers, Gary.

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Comment posted by Navin Sarma on October 3, 2014 at 12:50 PM

KK, seriously one of my favs from you. You excel at brooding scenes and this one fits right in the portfolio. It must have been pitch-ish dark for this 70min exposure. I don't recall other renditions of this scene but the monochrome is on point

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on October 4, 2014 at 3:55 PM

A fine image, however you produced it. A little work on the edges makes it even finer.

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Comment posted by Preston Birdwell on October 5, 2014 at 6:33 PM

Very moody and dramatic, KK. There's almost a selenium toning effect that I like. I agree about the halos, but this is a fine image.

--P

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Comment posted by Kah Kit Yoong on October 5, 2014 at 10:07 PM

Thanks for the comments. I'm using a new laptop for processing the 15" MacBook Pro and preparing web images can be hit and miss with regards to sharpening. There's perhaps a thin sharpening halo there however the broader lightening above the horizon is the glow of sunset which was captured at the start of the exposure. This was a 70 minute digital capture at ISO 100.

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Comment posted by Ken Smith on October 6, 2014 at 12:47 AM

I like the fewer stars in the sky…as if shot when the moon were up and masking many of them. Lovely. Simple color tones keep this with a cool and crisp ‘feel’.

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Comment posted by Neale Dyster on October 6, 2014 at 1:50 AM

Love the composition, and the mono suits so well.

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Comment posted by Ian Cameron on October 6, 2014 at 8:22 AM

Really nice blue toned black and white which I think suits this shot admirably adding a pleasing mystery to it.

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Comment posted by Preston Birdwell on October 8, 2014 at 3:06 PM

Kah Kit, Bruce King posted a thread in the Digital Imaging Forum asking about how long exposures affect battery life. Since he mentioned this image specifically, I thought you might be able to give him some ideas.

--P

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Comment posted by Kah Kit Yoong on October 8, 2014 at 7:14 PM

Thanks for pointing that out Preston.

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