The Universe from the Earth

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Saurabh R. Desai
The Universe from the Earth
Dear Nature lovers,

This photography was taken near a small village in Bay of Khambhat during my biking trip in that area. This is taken by Nikon F55 film-roll camera with 18-55mm lens. Aperture was kept f12 and exposure was taken for around 1 hour 45 minutes to expose stars in particular manner. I kept Pole-star in the middle of the frame to get some full circles even in the bottom.

The red-orange reflection on the temple is because of lamp kept in the corners by the priest of the temple. Temple is man-made element here but it was necessary for me to keep it there as a reference point. This photograph had been taken after so many sleepless nights in different areas.

I have used neat-image to reduce noise from the image, otherwise there was a noticeable noise in the negative of 100 ISO.
Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:46 pm
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Commentby pateldrpiyush on Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:24 pm

Hi Saurabh,
Evereything in nature (or even in life!) is in its perfect placement (to complete the scene).

Hats off to your patience and ultimately the creation after that,

Warm regards, like a lamp light of the temple here,
Piyush.

Commentby Saurabh R. Desai on Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:13 pm

I forgot to write about,
The orange color in the bottom right corner is due to the light of the village called “Navaagam’. This was around 2.5 km away from the sea coast where this temple was situated in a lonely area, where we stayed for 2 nights with our tents and all.

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Commentby Sriharsha Ganjam on Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:08 pm

Super effort Saurabh. I have done such images and I know the effort required to get it right. Ofcourse I did a multiple exposure on a digital and hence was much easier. Doing it on film in a single shot is something else. I love the way the temple adds a sense of perspective to the frame. The temple is the only stationary subject in this frame and the fluttering flags gives an indication of the windy conditions you would have had on the night. And the orange and blue colors compliment each other well here.

Commentby Ashwini Kumar Bhat on Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:34 pm

This is really excellent Saurabh! The colors in the frame are really complementing to each other so they give a very nice feel. The motion blur caused by the flags give another dimension to the already well made image....

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Commentby adnan jariwala on Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:16 pm

I was waiting for such an image for a while. You made my day.
The creativity with the subject and the motif is superb. The image on a film is akin to "working blind" in today's digital age and hats off to you for pulling this off.
My .2 cent worth (my briain works at 10%) is that the image looks a tad oversharpned and some color noise in the bg is evident. Again with film that is a completely different story so does not detract from your superb effort. Well done!

Commentby Kaushik Balakumar on Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:53 am

Lovely attempt Saurahb. Getting this kind of exposures on film is tough indeed.
Is this a full frame shot (i mean no cropping) ?

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Commentby Ganesh H Shankar on Sat Jun 28, 2008 8:49 am

Very creative image Saurabh. Love those concentric circle. My only wish being you had some natural God made foreground subjects to anchor the image than those man made buildings for God :)

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Commentby Vijay Mohan Raj on Sun Jun 29, 2008 12:14 pm

A very well visualised shot and nicely effected to, I like the full circle here and also the exposure is not tampered with. I dont mind the human element here after humans are a significant part of nature.

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