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    Default Landscape IOTW for 6/18/2010 Morkel Erasmus

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    Congratulations Morkel Erasmus
    Kalahari Night Skies

    Hi everyone! Back from an amazing (albeit too short) 11 day trip to the Kalahari, specifically the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.

    Mountains of images to add to my already backlogged processing list...but found time today for a quick one.

    Shot this late one night in the Nossob Rest Camp after they cut the generators, leaving the place totally dark for me to play around with my LED torch.

    I used this tree in the corner of the camp because I liked the fenceline behind it and the old aircraft hanger in the BG as defining line and shape for the BG (as opposed to just sky).

    This is my first attempt at something I call "ISO-stacking" - which is basically just a blend of 2 images shot at different ISO settings. The first shot was at ISO-3200 and gave me a higher quality foreground, and the second shot was at ISO-6400 to suck more stars out of the African Milky Way. I painted the tree with my new LED Lenzer torch by bouncing the light off my hand for a warmer tone.

    I treated the sky with Noiseware Professional.

    All feedback highly valued!

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    Canon 7D with 10-22mm USM @ 10mm
    f3.5 @ 30s @ ISO3200-6400

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    Your experimenting paid off Morkel, well done.

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    Congratulations, Morkel!

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    Congratulations Morkelbhai

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    Congratulations Morkel on Landscape Image of the Week.

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    thanks a lot for this guys - didn't expect it with all the great images posted that week :)
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    Way to go, Mork, bog congrats!

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    Morkel, well deserved … beautiful landscape. Congratulations.

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    Congrats Morkel!!! Great night image!

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    Very cool Morkel, you are doing some great work. Never even heard of blending ISO's, and it came out very well.

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    Big congrats Morkel! Very interesting info and what a sky!:)

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    Big congrats Mork.

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    thanks a million everyone! :)
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    very nice Morkel, congrats
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    thanks bro...
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