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by kahkityoong on Sun Sep 09, 2012 1:20 am

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Congratulations! This is the Image of the Week selection for the Travel and Culture Gallery, week ending 14th September, 2012!The lighthouse is quite popular with the few photographers that have photographed Bretagne, although I don't recall ever seeing any night shots. What constitutes a long exposure is pretty subjective but this one was 90 minutes in a single frame.

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by night86mare on Sun Sep 09, 2012 3:14 am

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Beautiful, I really like that red glow here. You did this in one shot, without doing stacking?

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by Gary Briney on Sun Sep 09, 2012 5:37 am

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Spectacular and slightly surreal -- I too really like the red reflection. Ninety minutes qualifies as a long exposure in my book -- do you know the source of the dashed trail on the right?

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by kahkityoong on Sun Sep 09, 2012 5:54 am

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Gary Briney wrote:Spectacular and slightly surreal -- I too really like the red reflection. Ninety minutes qualifies as a long exposure in my book -- do you know the source of the dashed trail on the right?

It's light from a building. The exposure was continuous 90 minutes with another 90 minutes for in camera noise reduction.

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by Gary Briney on Sun Sep 09, 2012 6:33 am

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Sorry my question wasn't clear -- I was referring to the broken arc which begins in the sky directly over the red light about midway to the top.

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by kahkityoong on Sun Sep 09, 2012 6:42 am

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Gary Briney wrote:Sorry my question wasn't clear -- I was referring to the broken arc which begins in the sky directly over the red light about midway to the top.

Not sure, maybe some sort of sharpening effect.

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by Gary Briney on Sun Sep 09, 2012 6:50 am

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Thanks -- just idle curiousity

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by kahkityoong on Sun Sep 09, 2012 3:21 pm

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Gary Briney wrote:Thanks -- just idle curiousity

Actually I'm sure that is what happened. It's the thickest trail so most affected by sharpening.

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by Marsel on Wed Sep 12, 2012 7:48 pm

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I like the mood, the light, the comp, the reflection and the star trails. Great idea. My only nits are the saturation of the sky and the saturated highlight area around the lighthouse - that part looks over processed to me.

By the way, I never sharpen my star trails, exactly because of the destructive effect you see here. I'm pretty sure they will still look fine without any sharpening.

Kudos on getting this in a single frame.

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