by photoz » Mon Aug 30, 2010 6:33 pm
This photo appears to be a faked composite. The view of the Great Gallery seems to be taken with a rather wide angle lens, and any wide angle shot of the Milky Way makes the stars very, very, very small on the 'film', nowhere near the size of the stars as seen in the photo. I have filmed the milky way in the desert before, and even with one minute exposures at ISO 1000, the Milky Way comes nowhere near what is showing in this shot. In addition there appears to be snow on the ground opposite the gallery, and that snow is illuminated! The only way the snow could be that bright would be with moonlight. And if the moon was in the sky that night, the color of the sky would have never been that black, as it is in this shot, there would have been a blueness in the sky. And as the sky scene nears the horizon, it would have been lighter(bluer) that it would have been overhead, due to atmospheric illumination from the moon.
An interesting shot for sure, but at least admit it is a composite. Otherwise your respect goes down the drain. You should be ashamed of pretending this is a real photo! No way!
This photo appears to be a faked composite. The view of the Great Gallery seems to be taken with a rather wide angle lens, and any wide angle shot of the Milky Way makes the stars very, very, very small on the 'film', nowhere near the size of the stars as seen in the photo. I have filmed the milky way in the desert before, and even with one minute exposures at ISO 1000, the Milky Way comes nowhere near what is showing in this shot. In addition there appears to be snow on the ground opposite the gallery, and that snow is illuminated! The only way the snow could be that bright would be with moonlight. And if the moon was in the sky that night, the color of the sky would have never been that black, as it is in this shot, there would have been a blueness in the sky. And as the sky scene nears the horizon, it would have been lighter(bluer) that it would have been overhead, due to atmospheric illumination from the moon.
An interesting shot for sure, but at least admit it is a composite. Otherwise your respect goes down the drain. You should be ashamed of pretending this is a real photo! No way!