On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:11 AM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: paul stenquist >> On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:08 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: >>>> Look closely, he just used a big flash in the photo without star >>>> trails. :-) Regards, Bob S. >> I don't think he used a flash or any artificial light. The light >> extends too far into the background, and it's too uniform. However, >> it could be a combination of two exposures. One shot before the ball >> dropped, the other after dark. > > That's a pretty hard edge shadow extending from that table thingy and from > the low walls on the right side of the house in the photo without the star > trails. > > There's some kind of hard light source to the camera's left. Car headlights > perhaps? High beams could do that. The sun -- or even the moon -- can do that. Car headlights wouldn't light the distant background as this source has done and the foreground would be brighter. Paul > > The light is uniform in the one that does have the star trails. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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