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VelociBacon posted:Very cool - how bout a comparison shot of using it vs not using it? The skies finally cleared up enough for me to try this, and I gotta say that my setup was a giant piece of poo poo. The drive just isn't smooth, so no matter how careful I was turning the screw I'd get vibration that showed up in the pictures. So, I could eliminate star trails, but the stars would be spastic line spinning around a point instead. I think I'm going to just save up and get a real equatorial mount or a vixen polarie instead.
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 Night Sky by g.hetzel, on Flickr First try blending multiple images into star trails. Not the best, but I think it's not bad for not doing it before.
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Mr. Despair posted:I think I'm going to just save up and get a real equatorial mount or a vixen polarie instead. I remember this rig being posted a long time ago. This might help the smoothness for you. http://www.garyseronik.com/?q=node%2F52
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Superdawg posted:I remember this rig being posted a long time ago. This might help the smoothness for you. I looked at that site (and about 20 others) while planning this one. the #1 issue I'm having is just that the whole thing vibrates when you turn the threads. I need to add a proper handle to the threaded rod, and I think maybe add some tape to the bottom board to cover up the hole I drilled in it due to a genera paranoia about my first hole not being quite right, and then maybe get a better t nut to thread the rod through, there's quite a bit of play in this one. e. Really the hinges are pretty lovely too, I should have found something with less play in them. e2. The mark 2 handle works pretty well though, but it's a bit on the heavy side, even with the weight savings I attempted. 
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There's a park right next to where I live, and at night they have lights placed under the trees. This is from a lake in the same park. There was hardly any light, only the one that can be seen reflected in the water in the background. 
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SeaborneClink posted:SWSP what lens/iso/exposure were you using? I tried to look at the EXIF but imgur strips it all. I presume this was shot with your 5D3?
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Sorry about that. That was 15s at f/3.5, ISO 6400. 5D3 with TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II. You love that 24. I need a 24 
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45seconds, f/22, and being there   Whitewater - BLM Bridge #3, Mt Hood National Forest by Ashade76, on Flickr
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Anyone in these parts get a good shot of the nova? http://www.universetoday.com/104192/update-on-the-bright-nova-delphini-2013-plus-a-gallery-of-images-from-our-readers/ Too much city glow where I'm at. 
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FWIW the nova seems to have peaked at about 4.3 magnitude, it's been dropping in brightness for a few days now. Floating at around 5.2 or 5.3 from the looks of it. http://www.aavso.org/lcg/plot?auid=...2=&mean=&vmean=
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Mr. Despair posted:FWIW the nova seems to have peaked at about 4.3 magnitude, it's been dropping in brightness for a few days now. Floating at around 5.2 or 5.3 from the looks of it. Arghhhh. I've been trying but between the clouds that seem to appear out of nowhere starting about fifteen minutes after sunset to the super bright blue moon tonight I just haven't been able to get a dark enough sky to get anything worthwhile.
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PREYING MANTITS posted:Arghhhh. I've been trying but between the clouds that seem to appear out of nowhere starting about fifteen minutes after sunset to the super bright blue moon tonight I just haven't been able to get a dark enough sky to get anything worthwhile. Well, the moon's not too bad of a problem. I was able to get some pictures of it last night and the night before last. I used my zoom telephoto at 55mm last night, then shot a series of short (3s) exposures at 3200 ISO. Then I could stack them, which got rid of most of the noise from high ISOs, and then used levels to remove a lot of the skyglow from the Moon. I was able to see stars down to about 8th magnitude in my pictures, along with a faint smudge that's in the right place to be the Dumbbell Nebula. It's not going to be the amazing star fields that you'd see in a truly dark sky, but there's still enough stars to make the pictures interesting.
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I took some photographs. Barbur Storage by Isaac Sachs, on Flickr  A Sure Locksmith by Isaac Sachs, on Flickr
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Barn door tracker update. Mounted it on the new, bigger ball-head, moved the tiny benro to the top for the camera. Still needs some work on the drive screw, it's needs some graphite or something to make it spin easier, and something to brace it because there's some slop in the hole it goes through. Still, these are both 60 second shots with a 50mm on the OM-D. With the 15mm it would be even better.  
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Haven't done much all that much night photography before, so I decided like an idiot to jump in at the deep end with long exposure HDR. I think the first image is a bit oversaturated, although I do like the unnatural colors to some extent. idk.  
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The HDR in the first one is really obvious because there is halo glow everywhere. The second one is nice though.
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Might wanna rotate it so the poles are vertical though.
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I dunno, both of those seem really painfully contrasty.
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Casu Marzu posted:I dunno, both of those seem really painfully contrasty. Yeah I guess that was my main concern. initially quite in your face but lacking subtlety. Maybe if I'd taken an even quicker top bracket, the current one was still slightly overexposed in the highlights so you can't really see much detail on a bunch of the fluorescent signs. I'll play around in post-production a bit more - any ideas how to make these sort of images shine without overcompensating with contrast/colors? I tried a bit on the second one, trying to make it less contrasty but keep the harsh bright light and it just looked a bit flat otherwise. The first picture is probably an easier target, tho Mr SuperAwesome fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Aug 26, 2013 |
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Casu Marzu posted:I dunno, both of those seem really painfully contrasty. Yeah I don't particularly like either photo, but if you're gonna process an image and put it on the internets, might as well do the easy fixes.
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I took some pictures around town last night. There was still a bit of foot traffic out, but not really enough to show up in any of my shots: Varsity Theatre, Carbondale by venusian-weasel, on Flickr  Dairy Queen, Carbondale by venusian-weasel, on Flickr  Railroad Crossing by venusian-weasel, on Flickr  Amtrak Departure by venusian-weasel, on Flickr The stars around the lights are because of the aperture mask on my 35mm. Not sure I want to use it again for night shots.
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Star patterns are unavoidable, just don't point at point sources of light.
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You can alter them by opening up your aperture.. the star effect starts to go away and becomes more of a fuzzy blob effect. Obviously you'll have to be content with a narrower DOF though. It's caused by the point where two aperture blades meet.
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^ This is what I was going to say. Now the way you go about doing that is by using a neutral density filter. Probably doesn't need to be very strong since you are already shooting at night.
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 Stars over Bolam Lake 5 by NoneMoreNegative, on Flickr  Stars over Bolam Lake 1 by NoneMoreNegative, on Flickr Still a fair bit of light pollution half-an-hour out of town, I'll need to go further afield if I want a proper Milky Way shot. 20secs at 24mm is pushing stars as points as well, will stick to 15secs next time out.
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That's dope
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Managed a somewhat clear night out on the farm. IMG_9278e by bighoits, on Flickr
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wanghammer posted:Managed a somewhat clear night out on the farm. Very nice. How much post processing did you do?
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 this is a old pic, of new year :3
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accipter posted:Very nice. How much post processing did you do? Thanks. All I did was bring the highlights up, bump the exposure about 1 stop and desaturate the orange hue in the clouds at the bottom.
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Here's a few shots around San Francisco 5D3_7482 by capacity4action, on Flickr  5D3_6679 by capacity4action, on Flickr  5D3_8204 by capacity4action, on Flickr
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A couple from a minor shooting expedition last night: Emerson Bridge by venusian-weasel, on Flickr  Riverwalk at Cape Girardeau by venusian-weasel, on Flickr
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Duckjob posted:Here's a few shots around San Francisco I love the color balance on this.
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I can never get quite what I want doing long exposures at night, but here's one that I don't think is awful, at least!
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Mr. Despair posted:There should be a little cover that came with it, on the strap. See at the bottom of this http://www.canon.co.uk/Support/Consumer_Products/products/cameras/Digital_SLR/EOS_5D_Mark_II.aspx?faqtcmuri=tcm:14-1040571&page=1&type=faq I did not know this. Thank you Despair. Mr SuperAwesome posted:Haven't done much all that much night photography before, so I decided like an idiot to jump in at the deep end with long exposure HDR. I've pretty much given up on HDR, mainly because i cant get anything to look good and i waste shooting time doing excessive bracketing. Also, my G+ was full of the awful cartoony shite that Trey Ratcliff shits out regularly. The guy is a good photographer, when hes not doing HDR. His burning man stuff was amazing. 
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Has anyone mentioned that Comet ISON is coming up? Might be something to plan for if you like doing astrophotography. I am going to see if I can get something in a start shot since it is supposed to be very bright. http://waitingforison.wordpress.com/november-2013/
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Atticus_1354 posted:Has anyone mentioned that Comet ISON is coming up? Might be something to plan for if you like doing astrophotography. I am going to see if I can get something in a start shot since it is supposed to be very bright. Unfortunately, it's kind of looking like ISON's really not going to live up to the hype. The best show is supposed to be after it passes close to the sun, and based on more recent observations there's a good chance that it might not be large enough to survive that long. Crossing my fingers, though. Regardless, as long as it gets above about 3rd magnitude, or about the brightness of the Andromeda galaxy, you will be able to get some nice pictures of it. I took some pictures of Comet PanSTARRS earlier this year. It was about 3rd or 4th magnitude and in deep twilight, and I still managed to get some decent pictures of it. I didn't have a tripod that could track star motion, so I just took a lot of short pictures, stacked them to reduce the noise, and then stretched the histograms as far as I could without making the picture look like poo poo. I ended up with shots like this:  PanStarrs Closeup by venusian-weasel, on Flickr  PanStarrs Sunset by venusian-weasel, on Flickr As a note, the geometry of ISON's tail will work in favor of photographers, since we'll see it edge on and have all the light concentrated in one area. PanSTARR's tail was almost face on, so the light from it was a lot more diffuse.
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