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paullangford wrote:

geckzilla wrote:

paullangford wrote:I can't help thinking that this is a composite of two photos.

Sure, stacked composites can look like this, but so can a single photo that has had one area adjusted separately from another area. Another thing that can cause halos is a sharpening filter. I can help you pinpoint the dissonance you feel when you look at the image. It's not just the slight edge where the cave touches the sky. Look at where the horizon meets the sky. Is it ever possible that the ocean, lacking a reflection from something like the moon, can appear brighter than the sky, even at night? Not unless the ocean itself is glowing, and I don't see any of that bioluminescent plankton here! Anyway, the horizon is often a place where things get wonky when attempting to adjust the sky or land separately from one another, because that is where they meet. A lot of care has to be taken to keep them united and cutting a straight, hard line across like this is what makes it seem disturbingly unreal. It's a kind of uncanny valley for landscape photography.

Thanks for the reply.....I agree sharpening can give you a halo (which it wouldn't need if it was shot on a tripod)....but so can masking, so you haven't convinced me.
I still think it's a composite of two photos, ....looks nice though.

Lg007 wrote:The question I have to ask is how did he get this clear shot with all the LIGHT POLLUTION from all of SoCal and a constant night time MARINE LAYER? Call me a hater or doubter but I'm skeptical about its originally without some help from a NorCal software company that has a name assorted with the word for house in Old Spanish California.

montylc2001 wrote:
Found a still from the movie "The Usual Suspects" and yes it is the same cave. Taken at a different angle and time of day, and tide is out, but rock formations and formation in front of cave entrance correlate. Plus probably a little erosion the last 20 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_Girls_and_the_Monster wrote:
<<The Beach Girls and the Monster (aka Monster from the Surf) is a horror and beach party film, released in 1965.

Young Richard Lindsay (Arnold Lessing) has given up his career in science in favor of his newfound passion, surfing on the Santa Monica beachfront near his father and stepmother's house, where he lives. This is to the great displeasure of his father, the noted oceanographer Dr. Otto Lindsay (Jon Hall), who is married to the younger Vicky (Sue Casey), who is dissatisfied with Otto's relative lack of devotion to her. Also living with the Lindsays is Richard's sculptor buddy Mark (Walker Edmiston), who walks with a limp as a result of an auto accident Richard had earlier.

While Vicky hits on her stepson and teases his friend Mark, a monster emerges from ocean and starts slaughtering the kids on the beach. Dr. Lindsay seems convinced that it is a mutant Barracuda. The monster is believed to be the a genetically mutated Barracuda (carnivorous South American "fantigua fish") that has grown large enough in anthropomorphic manner to exist out of the oceans in loathsome seaweed shrouded form.>>

ta152h0 wrote:How many stars can one identify ? bet Magellan could name quite a few

Jim Armstrong wrote:And millions of grains of sand are visible on the beach.

Jim Armstrong wrote:A nice picture.
I wonder if it is accurate to say "visible in the background starscape are millions of stars."
Though we all know miIlions (or billions) are there, I could count perhaps a few hundred.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Carrillo wrote:

[b][color=#0000FF][size=150]Leo Carrillo with Conquistador[/size][/color][/b]

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<<Leopoldo Antonio Carrillo [Cay-reel-yo] (August 6, 1881 – September 10, 1961), was an American actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist. He is best remembered from the television series The Cisco Kid (1950–1956), on which, beginning at the age of seventy, he portrayed the sidekick Pancho to Cisco [Duncan Renaldo (1904–1980)].

A preservationist and conservationist, Carrillo served on the California Beach and Parks commission for eighteen years and played a key role in the state's acquisition of Hearst Castle at San Simeon, Los Angeles Arboretum, and Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. He was eventually made a goodwill ambassador by the California Governor at the time.

As a result of his service to California, west of Malibu on CA-1 Pacific Coast Highway, a 1.5 mile beach is named Leo Carrillo State Park in his honor. In 1913, Carrillo married Edith Shakespeare Haeselbarth, of Nyack, New York, whom he met backstage at the New York City theater where she had seen him perform. When Carrillo's beloved palomino Conquistador died, the steed was buried in a place of honor on a secluded knoll to the east of Carrillo's ranch in what is now La Costa.>>

Lg007 wrote:The question I have to ask is how did he get this clear shot with all the LIGHT POLLUTION from all of SoCal and a constant night time MARINE LAYER?

auribej wrote:In that photograph Saturn is visible as well, the brightest light a little to the right and up from Antares...am I right?

geckzilla wrote:

paullangford wrote:I can't help thinking that this is a composite of two photos.

Sure, stacked composites can look like this, but so can a single photo that has had one area adjusted separately from another area. Another thing that can cause halos is a sharpening filter. I can help you pinpoint the dissonance you feel when you look at the image. It's not just the slight edge where the cave touches the sky. Look at where the horizon meets the sky. Is it ever possible that the ocean, lacking a reflection from something like the moon, can appear brighter than the sky, even at night? Not unless the ocean itself is glowing, and I don't see any of that bioluminescent plankton here! Anyway, the horizon is often a place where things get wonky when attempting to adjust the sky or land separately from one another, because that is where they meet. A lot of care has to be taken to keep them united and cutting a straight, hard line across like this is what makes it seem disturbingly unreal. It's a kind of uncanny valley for landscape photography.

paullangford wrote:I can't help thinking that this is a composite of two photos.

Lg007 wrote:The question I have to ask is how did he get this clear shot with all the LIGHT POLLUTION from all of SoCal and a constant night time MARINE LAYER? Call me a hater or doubter but I'm skeptical about its originally without some help from a NorCal software company that has a name assorted with the word for house in Old Spanish California.

Guest wrote:Is this the same cave used in "The Usual Suspects"?