CurlyToes Photography

I took this photo a couple of nights ago. I decided to actually brave the scary dark and do some night photography. I only walked down the road where I could look into a field and see something interesting in the sky. In this photo you can obviously see the full moon, but above and to the right you can see a little cluster known as the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters. It is part of the constellation of Taurus and actually has quite a few more that seven stars in it. The bright star to the right of this is actually the planet of Mars. On the very top left of the photo you can see the top three stars of the constellation of Auriga, the charioteer, and its brightest star Capella. The foreground is lit by streetlights which added a horrible orange cast. I removed most of this using a colour mask in photoshop. The white balance of the sky was altered to give it the nice purple hue in Bibble, and the whole thing run through Neat Image to remove noise that was clearly visible in the sky. I am not too keen on how blue the moon has gone, and I even got lens flair from it, but I am generally quite happy.

Posted 11:50pm Tuesday, 27th September 2005