Nubble Lighthouse - Night Pano C&C Welcome

[HughGuessWho]

My first attempt at Civil Twilight / Stitched / Pano
This was taken right at the end of civil twilight.
3 shots C
Canon 7D
Sigma 10-20
20mm
F/14
ISO 320
30 second exposure
Shot in RAW - Processed in ACR and Elements 10
C&C and Input Welcome

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[Ernicus]

Thats really cool man. Nice work.

 

[HughGuessWho]

Thats really cool man. Nice work.

Thanks

 

[arkipix1001]

very nice...

 

[o hey tyler]

Nice! Glad to see you're in Maine!

I might suggest for a night pano, especially with a wide lens, that you not stop the lens down quite so far. F/8 would have provided a more than sufficient DoF, and would have allowed you to also use a lower ISO to get the same exposure @ 30sec. Just a thought.

Also, I am very intrigued as to how you shot at 22mm on a Sigma 10-20.

 

[LizardKing]

Nice! I like it a lot!

 

[Trever1t]

I love the island, lightouse the exposure above the water but the reflection looks unnatural.

 

[HughGuessWho]

Nice! Glad to see you're in Maine!

I might suggest for a night pano, especially with a wide lens, that you not stop the lens down quite so far. F/8 would have provided a more than sufficient DoF, and would have allowed you to also use a lower ISO to get the same exposure @ 30sec. Just a thought.

Also, I am very intrigued as to how you shot at 22mm on a Sigma 10-20.

Well, now ya went and done it. I suppose I will have to drive back up and try it again at f/8. Not that I am complaining. I love that area, if all of the vacationers would just get out of my way. Thanks for the advice, as I could have dropped down too 200 and noise was a bit of an issue. Actually I should have known that anyway.
Regarding the 22mm... I was using my f stop stretcher.. either that it was a typo, not sure which.

 

[HughGuessWho]

I love the island, lightouse the exposure above the water but the reflection looks unnatural.

Thanks, Trever1t for the comments. I thought the reflection looked a little odd too, but had no clue what to to with it in PP. I did try to lower the reds, but I think it actually looks more "unnatural". The reflection was in each of the shots so I think the problem started when they were overlapped during stitching. I may try it again with a less wide lens, take more shots and try to have the bright light and reflection in only one shot.

Reds reduced in Lightroom. Better? Worse? Neither?

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[Trever1t]

the second image is larger and looks pretty cool. It just seemed the the light source wasn't bright enough to create such a reflection! :thumbup:

 

[HughGuessWho]

the second image is larger and looks pretty cool. It just seemed the the light source wasn't bright enough to create such a reflection! :thumbup:

Thanks. Coming from you, that means alot.