Space Shuttle

Completed 2018-11-21. Available releases:

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For this one, the imaginary photographer has set the exposure of the camera high enough to capture the stars, which are typically not visible in correctly exposed pictures in space. You can see the Milky Way running up and down the center.

The consequence, of course, is that the sunlight (white, coming from the right) and the reflected light off the Earth (bluish-green, coming from below) make the orbiter very overexposed (leading to very bright regions that produce blown-out diffraction spikes.

The hard part artistically was getting the luminance balance correct. A couple times I realized that the shadow I'd drawn was in the wrong place or didn't match the other components of the image!

Probably I shouldn't have added stars. Also, for some reason the shuttle's lights are off . . .

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