"Southern Cross" under the Southern Cross!

Hi all,

I drove past this windmill (about 1 hr drive west of Brisbane) a couple of weeks ago, and thought it would be a good spot for a bit of nightscape photography. So I returned on Thursday evening, and here's the result...

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/o62U​YK

Very nice shot, I like it a lot!

Love the concept but the windmill is too well lit. Sort of looks photoshop added.

Gnhntn wrote in post #17040910
Very nice shot, I like it a lot!

Thanks!

gjl711 wrote in post #17040917
Love the concept but the windmill is too well lit. Sort of looks photoshop added.

Thanks for the feedback... I wanted to make sure the text in the vane was clearly visible, which is why I did the light painting. It's hard to judge how much to use though! My feeling is that this is about right (I have some brighter ones), but here's another shot in landscape orientation where the windmill is less bright.

(I also tried doing separate exposures for the sky (at f/2.8) and mill (at f/11 with torch), but this looked very photoshopped and fake to me.)

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/oktF​mN