Ghost Tree

Ghost Tree, originally uploaded by vskiran.

Who says image noise is bad. I just love it in this picture. It gave an interesting texture to the picture. The original picture was about 1.5 stops underexposed. Correcting that in photoshop added the extra noise to the image. The background of the original color image was a quite blue. I reduced the amount of blue in the gray channel mixer to make the background darker. It definitely helped the picture by increasing its contrast.
This is one of my experiments with long exposure (over 10 minutes ) on a full moon day. You could find my other picture with a long exposure at
eerie house

The tree looks a little surreal agains the house with a white wall. You could also see little bit of star trails in the image.