Noel Kerns
Rattlesnake Bunker
An outtake shot from my very first visit to the Rattlesnake Bomber Base in Pyote, Texas in January 2008. This is an old munitions bunker on the WW-II-era US Army-Air Force Base, set off in the desert of far West Texas. For more info and pictures from the abandoned base, see the Pyote Air Force Base Set Page.
This image was initially discounted when I first reviewed the images from the trip, in part because of the battery dying in mid-exposure, closing the shutter before a proper full exposure could be accomplished, but mostly because of excessive noise in the image due to the fact that the Nikon D80's Long Exposure Noise Reduction didn't get a chance to process the image...also because the battery died. Unlike today's CMOS-sensor DSLR cameras, the Nikon D80 used a CCD sensor, which was VERY prone to digital noise if in-camera LENR wasn't used, and this image was a complete mess, full of hot pixels and amp glow.
Anyway, with the excellent noise reduction software I'm using today, the image cleans up quite nicely, and leaves only a few traces of digital noise behind in the image, which I cleaned up quickly and easily with the clone tool. This is the result...a serviceable image, in my opinion.
Be sure to view this image large on black to see it as it felt on that 15-degree January night.
Night, 3/4 moon, natural LED flashlight, natural mini-maglite, red-gelled strobe.
Rattlesnake Bunker
An outtake shot from my very first visit to the Rattlesnake Bomber Base in Pyote, Texas in January 2008. This is an old munitions bunker on the WW-II-era US Army-Air Force Base, set off in the desert of far West Texas. For more info and pictures from the abandoned base, see the Pyote Air Force Base Set Page.
This image was initially discounted when I first reviewed the images from the trip, in part because of the battery dying in mid-exposure, closing the shutter before a proper full exposure could be accomplished, but mostly because of excessive noise in the image due to the fact that the Nikon D80's Long Exposure Noise Reduction didn't get a chance to process the image...also because the battery died. Unlike today's CMOS-sensor DSLR cameras, the Nikon D80 used a CCD sensor, which was VERY prone to digital noise if in-camera LENR wasn't used, and this image was a complete mess, full of hot pixels and amp glow.
Anyway, with the excellent noise reduction software I'm using today, the image cleans up quite nicely, and leaves only a few traces of digital noise behind in the image, which I cleaned up quickly and easily with the clone tool. This is the result...a serviceable image, in my opinion.
Be sure to view this image large on black to see it as it felt on that 15-degree January night.
Night, 3/4 moon, natural LED flashlight, natural mini-maglite, red-gelled strobe.