[Leica] Last night meteor shower

[leicar at q.com (Aram Langhans)]

Thanks Jim, and Tina.
Richard, I never notice those stars.  I cloned them out.  It was very windy 
that night.  I am amazed the tripod stood still enough.  Had a camera bag 
hung from the center column, and only extended one section of leg.

Here is the tweaked version:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/228451-1/meteor-1791-Edit-2.jpg

I removed the blog, and played with contrast and such.  The first version 
was already pretty heavily enhanced to get it to show up in the first place. 
I did not want to make it look too artificial.  Originally, besides working 
with contrast and curves, I had desaturated the blue and purple from the sky 
to make it look more natural after the tweaking, and that seemed to make the 
trail show up better.
Here is a jpeg of the original file:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/228454-1/meteor-1791.jpg


Any other suggestions?  If anyone want to give it a try I'll send them the 
file.

Aram

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> happy for you that you were able to catch one.
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> a crop to the side of the frame with the roof line
> (losing the out of focus blob on the right)
> and a bit of work on enhancing the contrast of the streak
> may make for a more memorable photograph
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
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> On Aug 13, 2010, at 9:23 PM, Aram Langhans wrote:
>
>> Tried my had until the sky got a bit overcast.  Not very active when I 
>> was shooting at around 10:45.  I hear it was suppose to be peak between 
>> midnight and 2AM.  I looked out about 12:30 and it was cloudy so I stayed 
>> in bed.
>>
>> This was my best shot:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/228399-1/meteor-1791-Edit.jpg
>>
>> If you use your imagination you can see the meteor above the roof about 
>> half way up the sky.  Maybe I'll try again tonight.  I only saw one while 
>> setting up.  I exposed about 20 frames at 30 seconds and two frames 
>> caught one. Also caught a plane that I thought was a meteor until I 
>> looked and saw the light was intermittent.  Darn.  It looked pretty good.
>>
>>
>> Aram
>>