| Exposure: | 30 minutes on Kodak Ektachrome 200 (Pushed +1) |
| Camera: | Photographed with a Nikon FG camera and Nikkor 50mm lens at f/4. The camera was clamped to the counterweight of my Vixen Super Polaris while I piggybacked my Bronica medium format camera. |
| Notes: | I'm very pleased with the composition and appearance of this photograph. However, there seems to be a major aberration in the central area of the photograph. You'll notice a roughly-circular region that is clearly out of focus compared to the rest of the starfield. A closeup of Gemini shows the problem more clearly. Any ideas of what would cause this? Strangely enough, another photograph taken with the same camera but different lens from a year ago shows the same kind of softness in the central region. Is it my camera body? |
| Processing: | I used a simple vignetting mask to correct the falloff in the corners of this lens, and then simply made basic levels and curves adjustments for contrast and to set the tone of the background. |
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