Interesting image.
Myself being also an Astrophotographer with telescopes and dedicated astrocamera with filter wheels ans special imging techniques, that violet or purple color is somehow quite unreal for me.
What time at the night was that shot taken ?
Hi Raier. This was taken Sept 12, 2014 around 11pm. This photo was taken with a Nikon D800 camera, 16-28mm zoom, used 23mm focal length at f2.8, 2500 ISO, 20 second exposure.
The color is due to me adjusting the WB down to 3900 Kelvin and pushing the vibrance slider a bit to the right. I wasn't too concerned about the colors being too violet or purple for this "alien" landscape. I think it matches it the scene. If I wanted the image to look more realistic, it would look darker, flat and more on the dark bluish grey color pallet…and left it closer to what the original photo looked like. I was looking at it from a creative point of view, injecting my own interpretation of what I want this image look like and creating a moody image without going too much over the top…or maybe I already went over the top. Ha! But I was definitely not approaching this from a photojournalistic or documentary point of view. I hope this makes sense.
Thanks.