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Very nice work Morkel with just enough light painting on the foreground quiver tree!
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A lovely shot very eye catching. The tree is beautifully illustrated against the backdrop. I also like the detail in the rocks and the more distant elements being in silhouette. The hint of orange on the horizon adds further interest.
I wonder if it would have been beneficial to apply lens correction for distortion in order to make the tree vertical - what do you and other people think?
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Thanks guys
Jonathan these trees don't always grow straight vertically and many jut out diagonally like this - yes the tree "was straighter" in real life but I am fine with the distortion as presented.
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I always enjoy the start skies in these shots, here complemented with a gorgeous tree (im curious to what type of tree is it?).
Well done Morkel!
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I like the way you have constructed this image, Morkel - I think the distortion on the trees, given that you have one foreground and one background act as lead in lines to the Milky Way.
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Jonathan Ashton
I wonder if it would have been beneficial to apply lens correction for distortion in order to make the tree vertical - what do you and other people think?
I do not find it distracting at all but I do wonder if a few steps to the right (provided you aren't falling off a cliff!) may have given more symmetry to the two trees.
Does anyone know what the white smudge is about 2/3 up on the right? I presume it is a galaxy or similar.
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Thanks folks.
Luis - a quiver tree, a type of aloe
Mike - that would be the Magellanic cloud (one of them I think), a cluster of stars visible in the southern hemisphere? My astronomy is not the greatest eh...