Lately I took a set of pictures with night urban scenes. Such a subject requires relatively long exposures and ISO should be in most cases high enough. All this stimulates noise and so, normally night photos contain a good deal of noise artefacts. To supress noise I applied some techinque that I took from my astrophoto experience and now I would like to speak on this matter.

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So, for all my night shots I used tripod and took several shots from the same point and with all the same sets (typically from 5 to 10). Surely, I saved pictures in RAW format since (a) it does not use any compression and so, it does not rape any information; (b) it uses 13 bits to code brightness (for my Canon 350d) in contrast to JPEG which does only 8. 8 bits are quite enough for resulting image but...

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I would like to introduce my collection which is dedicated to very first downloads on DT for each of us.

HERE IT IS






I suggest to use this collection to share our first sales. Let each of us shows there a picture that was one's first download on DT. We all remember that brilliant moment when figures in "Uploads:" field became non-zero. It was exciting, impressive and gaily. And gave us lot of pleasant feelings. Let's get a bit nostalgia and repeat that moment.






To get your very first download to be presented in the collection you are welcome...

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My 300th image has been just approved.

I have new record today: 16 sales per day. 12 of them are Zodiac images which I worked on a month ago: