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Pretty new to this long exposures jazz, here's a few of my first attempts, taken in the Australian Outback using the 500 rule on a 25-105 f4 lens. 12687_10153477320050397_495231846_n by garney89, on Flickr  IMG_7012 by garney89, on Flickr  IMG_7030 by garney89, on Flickr Only had access to the worst tripod ever and an intervelometer that didn't work properly, but I'm happy enough with them for a first attempt.
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garney posted:Pretty new to this long exposures jazz, here's a few of my first attempts, taken in the Australian Outback using the 500 rule on a 25-105 f4 lens. That one owns. I wish we had stars in New Jersey.
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ZippySLC posted:That one owns. According to the light pollution map, northern Maine is the closest option.  Or the mountains in West Virginia.
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ZippySLC posted:That one owns. Aha, guess i'm lucky living in the middle of nowhere in a tiny town of 2000 people, nearest other town is at least 3 hours away so light pollution isn't an issue.
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Lightning from the Deck. This is a composite of the lightning strikes seen from our deck at Stafford, QLD on the 23rd Nov. On the left is the city of Brisbane, the right is Enoggera Hill. Between them lies Sparkes Hill. Over 900 lightning strikes were detected by the BoM during this thunderstorm. This composite is made of 11 frames, exposure lengths of 8-30s at ISO 200, f3.5 on a Canon 550D w/ 28-135mm USM, using Magic Lantern. Panorama made in AutoPano Giga 3.  Click for huge. ------- It was a bit unexpected, I had a few long exposures on the same spot and i threw the lot into Autopano hoping to stack a few frames, what it spat out was one huge panorama. I didnt think i had taken enough skyline to get it to stitch all together but i had an RMS of 2.2. A few tweaks and cropped it to this. I may work on it further. Suggest away.
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garney posted:Aha, guess i'm lucky living in the middle of nowhere in a tiny town of 2000 people, nearest other town is at least 3 hours away so light pollution isn't an issue. In most of NJ there's no differentiation between towns. One town ends and another one immediately begins. It's pretty terrible. I live in a small town (1.6 sq miles) and we have 16k people living here.
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Got some pics of Comet Lovejoy this morning. Turns out it had a friend! Comet Lovejoy and the Whirlpool by venusian-weasel, on Flickr
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 This isnt so much a long exposure as it is a bunch of very short exposures put together in PS. This was taken with a gopro, the only camera we had in the cave. It is about 30 seconds of video with the camera sitting on a rock, with us waving our lights around to light up the rocks. The room we were in was massive, I'm guessing around 100 ft tall. It was really cool. The post on this was the most time consuming I've ever had. I exported all of the frames into photshop layers, 100 at a time to keep filesize down. I had 9 psd files of 100 layers each. I ended up using every other layer, you couldn't tell the difference between that and using each layer. Once I had removed 1/2 the layers I went through each one and deleted everything except for the bigger of the two spots seen in the video below. My friend can be seen in the upper right corner at some points in the video, waving his helmet around with the headlamp attached, so I removed any of the times he was seen. I also had to remove my smaller headlamp's spot as it didn't add to the image and was a different color temperature. Once I removed the extraneous things in the 100 layer files I merged the visible layers and pasted that into a new psd file with a different layer for each merged 100 layer images. So this created 9 layers in the new file. I then tweaked some things in that image and created the final image. Video: 
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KingOMtDew posted:
This loving owns. Also, gently caress trying to light stuff up with cap lamps 
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Two shots from a parking garage roof, can't escape NJ light pollution so just embrace it. 
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15 or 30 second exposure, the orange is a campfire.
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Rime posted:15 or 30 second exposure, the orange is a campfire. This reminds me of my camping trip to VT. Looked up and this is exactly what I saw. Sometimes a familiarity has a much stronger connection than stunning images. Not to say this photo is bad. Thanks for posting this.
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rcman50166 posted:This reminds me of my camping trip to VT. Looked up and this is exactly what I saw. Sometimes a familiarity has a much stronger connection than stunning images. Not to say this photo is bad. Thanks for posting this. Thanks! I took it in Manning Park, BC, back in July. First night I'd ever done exposures, given the light pollution in Vancouver. 
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 Untitled by vexborg, on Flickr Taken with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3. Settings: 20 sec, ƒ/3.5, ISO 1250, 14 mm
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Longest one I've made in a couple of months:
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How long was that? 2 seconds?
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Yes. Enjoy the lights. 
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Gave trails a try out of boredom. Took lots of fudgery in Lightroom to turn the horrible orange light of all these gas discharge lights. that Belgium's got a hard-on for, into something pleasing. Trails I by cerealbawx, on Flickr  Trails II by cerealbawx, on Flickr  Trails III by cerealbawx, on Flickr
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Took a few shots of this bridge last week and these two seemed to come out the clearest. Old Northern Ave. Bridge by aerofiki, on Flickr  Old Northern Ave. Bridge by aerofiki, on Flickr
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Just a backyard shot. Added points for the bed sheets I forgot to take off the clothes line... DSC_0962 by blinsaff, on Flickr
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Christmas lights!   I had huge problems with blown highlights shooting this stuff (and in fact now that I'm looking at the exported jpeg, the middle shot looks worse than I thought it would), I should probably think about getting a body that does proper bracketing someday.  City glow killed a bunch of shots too.
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Bored on the way home from school one evening with the girlfriend. IMG_0060-1 bw by samjack56, on Flickr  IMG_0017-1 by samjack56, on Flickr  IMG_0027-1 by samjack56, on Flickr  IMG_0022-1 by samjack56, on Flickr
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Venusian Weasel posted:Anyone got a good guide to processing images that DeepSkyStacker produces? I'm getting some good pictures out of it, but I'm having to convert to 16-bit/channel tif to play with them in photoshop (I don't have lightroom) and I'm probably tossing out a lot of information since DSI produces 32-bit/channel tifs. I'm not really sure how to work DSS's processing stuff, and the developer just suggests using other postprocessing software. Taking a picture of a comet is difficult. As esentially you are wanting to overlay all of the pictures on top of each other aligned exactly together, as this is what gives the increased contrast and detail. So the problem with a comet, is that if the pictue aligns itself so that the comet is in the same place each frame, you dont get any increase in detail for the rest of the picture. And if you align all of the stars instead, the comet will look like a blurry mess. Romanv fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Jan 5, 2014 |
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Comets are fun, and you can do a composite image which includes both stars and comet by stacking the images as two separate sets. The first set you align on the stars and use a heavy sigma clip to remove the comet as much as possible. The second run you manually align on the comet and again use a heavy sigma to remove the stars. Process each image normally then combine in PS as separate layers and use cunning brush / transparency to bring the comet back into the image. Saying that I've only done it once, it's hard work taking and aligning 60 odd frames twice.  Comet 103p Hartley by tmarkuk, on Flickr It's been a while since I posted in here, I have a new camera now (QSI-583ws) and narrowband filters. I'll be getting a new mount this year to, either an EQ8 or iOptron CEM60.  NGC281 in Narrow Band Hubble Palette by tmarkuk, on Flickr Jekub fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Jan 13, 2014 |
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Jekub posted:It's been a while since I posted in here, I have a new camera now (QSI-583ws) and narrowband filters. I'll be getting a new mount this year to, either an EQ8 or iOptron CEM60. Have you used any of the iOptron mounts? I've been looking at their ZEQ25 (vs a HEQ5/EQ6), but it's hard to find an independent opinion. A few people on Cloudy Nights post about them, but not too sure how neutral they are.
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None unfortunately, I am hoping that by the time I am ready to make a choice there will be some decent test results out to allow me to make a decision. If not I'll go with the EQ8, at least it is a known quantity and will easily allow me to piggyback a wide field refractor onto my 10" newt.
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Took this at -46c. The red from the marker light deserves a crop, but oh well. More colour. Rankin Inlet - 13-01-13 by theupstart, on Flickr
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Eh, I like the light. I think keeping some space above the antenna thing helps with the framing.
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Shampoo posted:Eh, I like the light. I think keeping some space above the antenna thing helps with the framing. Agreed. I like the light as well.
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Another vote to keep the red, it looks good.
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I think he means the light at the bottom, and yeah I'd try cropping that a little. I just lazily tried with my browser window and I think it helps balance things a bit.
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VomitOnLino posted:I think he means the light at the bottom, and yeah I'd try cropping that a little. Yes, the sorbet snow is throwing me off a bit. I can nit pick the weird effect on the red light itself. Maybe some kind of small ND filter spot created in Lightroom would do the trick? I think more than anything, I'm just really happy with the lack of noise. Hopefully we'll get more storms soon.
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Wouldn't be hard to do some perspective correction and mask a modified curve over the snow to bring the color cast down. Just create an adjustment layer in PS and bring the red down where the snow is and bring the green up a little.
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This just showed up in the mail (the skytracker, not the rest of it).   Seems pretty drat sturdy and precise, my only complaint with it is that the motor is pretty noisy. Breaks down nicely though, I should be able to bring it along for some hikes in the hills or the badlands when it warms up. Hopefully I can test it out next week even! It's -11F right now though, so I'm not getting my hopes up.
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I took the Skytracker out for a test. Full moon and somewhat windy, and I couldn't get the polar scope focused right in the dark (i managed to get the stars in focus, but I need to play with it more to get the actual guide markings in focus at the same time, too cold and windy to mess with it too much). So, not perfectly aligned, and a little shakey, but still really happy with the results. These are with and without the skytracker turned on, with a 40mm lens on my OM-D (so 80mm equivalent field of view, pretty zoomed in) P2120078.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr  iOptron Skytracker Test by MrDespair, on Flickr
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t-t-t-triple posting I had a non-windy night, and decent alignment. Just good enough to use a 200mm lens (400mm equivalent with this camera). This was 12 1 minute frames and a dark frame:  The Pleiades.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr That was about all I was up for though, it was only about 20 degrees outside and my boots just aren't that warm, even with wool socks  Also tried getting andromeda, but I wound up aiming at the wrong place :facepalm: Only realized it after I looked at this pic.  P2260032.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr
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