This shot was taken at 3:00 a.m. at the top of Scotts Head on a full moon.
Photographer: Dwight Musgrave/Head of Dwight M. Photography
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Damn Dwight you are getting alot of heat for this photo.
I am a friend of the photogra[her and a professional photographer myself, and i have had the opportunity to see this photograph and the metadata of it the only thing photoshoped in this image is the name Dwight M photography.
I am not a fan of enhancing photos in the shop but we must understand it is another tool in the photographers toolbox and the ones who can use it well do great stuff with it. People were saying the same thing when photos became availabe in colour, then they had problems when digital came in. those of you who know about using slow shutter speeds, aperture and high iso’s to get light into the lens and transfer it unto the image will know that this is attainable and much more. This is a stunning photo and i have complimented the artist on it already. I think we must learn to appreciate the artist work regardless of the medium or tools used to create it.
the Full moon is coming soon maybe i may take a trip to the head and get a similar shot.
Oneness and Guidance
Sheldon Casimir
And as usual, brilliant work Dwight. You’re a true artist, you don’t just point and click like many out there. You know the art of photography and what it takes to make an everyday view something exceptional! Not many others will be up at 3 am at the right time of the lunar calendar, right time of year with the skill to take such a masterpiece.
As to those who believe it to be a fraud, well empty barrels make the most noise. Those who know nothing always have the most to say on an issue.
Always a fan of great work. Keep excelling.
@elizabeth xavier:
I don’t mean to be a Captain Obvious but it’s thus entitled because it was taken at…well…I dunno…The top of the mountain *eye rolling* didn’t take a genius to see that.
that pic is the real deal ….
if you know about cam’s and the shutter speed….
Great shot Dwight…
fr. Yonkers
@the real gary:
at nite?
so y is the sky blue?
I noticed that the Photo of the Day of July 21 was taken by the same person. It also raised the same question of authenticity. I am beginning to believe that those who feel distaste about that photograph has a genuine reason to feel way. And if I am right, that photographer is not being fair to the image of our Dominica.
The pic was taken at night for all the ppl thinking its fake, hence the street lights being on
why everybody all of a sudden is a photoshop expert this photo this is the pure greatness of the canon rebel
that is not great photography….. just great photoshopping…..
i could do better than that!!!!!!!
Everytime i watch that .. i checking 3.AM… DE flash on dat camera doe easy eh. that even making you see blue skies…. That is a day time shot and the lights in the village were photoshoped…
I always save the Photo of the Day in My Picture file, that is those pictures which are genuinely enchanting to me. So I was about to do the same thing with that picture at first, but within a few seconds of looking at the picture, something about it distastes me. Me, who is so much in love with my Dominica.
Then I decided to read the comments, and as usual, we, who love our homeland, sees nothing wrong with her, picture or not. And so the praise of Beautiful Dominica went on.
But those who have experience of photographing noticed the thing that might have distastes me, for I truly did not know what it was. The first person who said it with bold words was Bronx, NY. The words were: it look fake to me. Perhaps that was my distaste, fakeness. You see, Love manifest in the Spirit of Truth and Purity. Love can discern falseness or imperfection. For they do not unite with each other, but Love has the almighty power.
After reading a few more of those comments I went to My Picture File, and I found a picture of Scots Head with that very same location; taken by another photographer. But it is a daylight picture, very beautiful indeed. Then I went back to take a look at the Photo of the Day, on DNO. The light reflection or image is the big problem; I have no idea why, but it looks like a very poor painting, to me, not an original photograph.
The next thing that does not make sense to me is the title of the picture. It says AT THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN. I was looking to see a scenery of the mountain top, when I clicked on the title. I do not understand the reason for that title.
Beautiful
looks like this place is on fire.
SOMEONE IS TRYING TO GET DOMINICA BEAUTY AT IT S BEST…… YES HE MADE ENHANCEMENT TO MAKE YOU SEE THE GORGEOUS VIEW BUT YALL JUST WANNA BREAK THE MAN DOWN……IF HE DID NOT MAKE ANY ENHANCEMENT YALL WOULD JUST BE SEEEING BLACK……… YALL DONT WANNA SEE YALL OWN COUNTRY GO UP….. YALL DONT APPRECIATE ANYTHING THAT PEOPLE DO TO MAKE THE COUNTRY KNOWN….. TYPICAL DOMINICAN…. ANYWAYS MY BOY….. I LOVE THE PIC AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
must be 3.00pm on a cloudy day, thats how it seems to me…the lights are exaggerated but I like the pic overall.
It’s called long exposure, people. Every digital camera has software which automatically manipulates the photo to produce the best results. He manually adjusted his settings on the camera to make whatever light there was at 3:00am 10x brighter to produce this surreal artistic effect. It is not photoshop!
Congratualtions Dwight. Don’t let the baseless criticism bring you down.
I agree that this photo is doctored and the photographer could simply say that he provided the effects digitally; no big deal. if this were genuine, the amount of wattage required to provide that type of night lighting in a small village like Scotts Head, would make Domlec rich overnight.
@Bronx, NY: how can you say something so idiotic and make it pass as if you are so right… God you ppl seem to create hatred and spew and ooze envy… what ever happened to the saying if you can’t say something good SHUT THE **** UP!!! obviously you know nothing about photography and shutter speeds… which once again makes me look like a thinking idiot… go get educated
— thinking idiot…
where ignorance is bliss it is folly to be wise…
Yes, another fraudulent image again, great publicity Dwight.
sorry for all who took offense, but any right sighted person will see that is not a 3 a.m. photo and the lights are fake….come on people. the individual did it for fun…let’s not get too offensive there! that’s a fake, point blank period!
@SO WHAT: I see you care nothing about authenticity….the point is not whether is a beautiful pic or not. The photographer is selling this as the real deal when it is clearly not. I would suspect the real pic, minus the doctoring, is probably more beautiful than this piece. But that doesn’t make a difference to you – you will eat whatever they give you, poison or not.
OK SO WHAT IF IT’S PHOTOSHOP OR EDITED………… .IT’S BEAUTIFUL …. SEND A PHOTO OF THE DAY TOO.
OK SO WHAT IF IT’S PHOTOSHOP OR EDITED………… SO WHAT……………..IT’S BEAUTIFUL …. SEND A PHOTO OF THE DAY TOO.
Am sorry, but I must agree with my fellow BRONX resident to an extent – I do not believe the pic is fake, but what the photographer purports to be a 3am shot is a fraud. Supposedly there was a full moon but quite frankly I do not believe this. First of all, the sky in the background is lite-blue – that is NOT a night shot. I don’t care how bright that moon was, there is NO WAY such a wide swath of the sky can be THAT blue at 3am in the morning. As anyone who has seen a full moon knows, the area of the sky surrounding the moon tends to be bright, but that’s a direct result of the glow of the moon; the sky in the background remains darker than lite-blue. The sky in this shot is suggests it was late afternoon on a cloudy day; don’t even try to convince me that it was a sunrise shot either. The photographer was facing east in this shot, so if it was an early sunrise, the glow of the sun would be visible – there is no glow.
Which brings me to the lights from the village. That too is fraudulent; lights from a well-lit city do not even look like that, much less for a small village like Scotts Head. These lights look like flood lamps as opposed to simple incandescent lightbulbs which is the prevalent type found in the village – who does this photographer think he’s fooling? Reading from the many congratulations, I can see he’s fooling a lot of people. PLUS, it’s supposedly 3am, all these people up? I doubt that very much. In any event, if the moon is that bright, so bright that the sky is lite-blue, it would suppress the lights on shore and certainly diminish the reflections on the water. Furthermore, the reflections are SO SO fake. Lights do NOT reflect like that on water. The distances suggested by the reflections are great, extending apparently for hundreds of feet across the bay – I have been in that bay many times, on boat, I know how extensive it is and am sorry, it’s impossible for the lights of the village to extend that far. And to prove my point that the lights and reflections are fraudulent, examine 3 reflections – start from the furthest RIGHT reflection, take note of the second, third and fourth reflections on the water – they have absolutely NO corresponding land-based light sources at the edge of the water to support the existence AND intensity of these reflections – they’re all far away from the water. I’m supposed to believe that the light from a lightpost or somebody’s veranda was so bright that it skipped over several dozen feet of earth to generate a reflection on water so bright that it could as well be next to the water? Am not gullible. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
We need some expert to authenticate this picture, please.
Allu not seeing them shadows man…. FAKE… Come better than that.Photoshop make ding dang on that watch the refection of the lights on the water. Watch the detail of the rock formation underwater.. With natural lighting…. I need a camera so wiii…
@Teejay: As you can see the photo is watermarked meaning it would have gone through some processing to get the watermark on hence the time stamp
Respect Dwighty with his Canon Rebel!!!! Up to now i cyah figure out the settings the boy use to get that effect
amazing pic, great work Dwight!!!!…i love those colours,, cant believe its 3:00 am,,btw the horizon is tilted but i guess its the artists like us who would notice these smaller details..
Bronx , N.Y , i feel so sorry for you(die-ass-poorer), thats no fake, thats natural beauty that we locals stay home and preserve for your once every 10 year visit, thats our version of watching Brooklyn from the subway at nights heading to the BRONX
WHY SO MUCH LIGHT AT 3 IN THE MORNING, AREN’T PEOPLE SLEEPING AT THAT TIME, MAKES ME CURIOUS, LOOKS GOOD BUT NOT REALLY CONVINCING, IF IT REALLY WAS TAKEN AT THIS TIME, WELL I MUST SAY BRAVO, BUT STILL……
Great pic, but the light reflection on the water looks a little photoshoped.
DNO has provided a forum for featuring what I think should be genuine work of art. A close look at this image reveals that it could not have been shot at 3:00 am. At 3:00 am, there is no way that one can have that much natural light and harsh shadows from the sun (look at those shadows and their angles on the right side of the photo). Digital images also carry EXIF data which provides information on the time, date etc. Do a right click and then click on “Read EXIF”. The information there indicates that the image was shot at 01:46:09. That I am sure is pm and not am.
Let’s be real and not provide fake information on this forum
@Bronx, NY: bronx you sound like a fake
yea i think we should vote on best pics of the month the one ilke the best
is the one out my window with the ship and houses that i beautiful
this is a beauty.. breathtaking.
This is beautiful
dwight boy… aye yeah…
Lovely dwighty…
sorry but i am not seeing any beauty in this pic; it looks fake!
Thats so pretty i love it
It would be nice if persons were allowed to vote for photo of the month, even if just as a form of encouragement for the photographers. This one is by far the best i have seen….. Beautiful Dominica