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Here's one from last month. The power went out so I drove down to the bay: Moonlit Resurrection by Alexander Havens, on Flickr And from last night, here are my first attempts at shooting auroras. It wasn't particularly strong, but it was clear. v  v Ribbons in the Sky by Alexander Havens, on Flickr  Trail Lake Lights by Alexander Havens, on Flickr  Above the Divide by Alexander Havens, on Flickr  Twisting Lights by Alexander Havens, on Flickr Expect more as we continue to descend into the darkness here in Alaska.
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toggle posted:Great shots mate! Thanks. The best part is traveling to national parks to take them. Alehkhs posted:
These are delightful. Try to frame it with a partial moon at your back and it will light up any snow/mountains you use to help frame your shot.
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Sep 21, 2015 03:46
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Another vacation, another hacky attempt to get the milky way and ocean together in the same shot 20150913-DSC_8555 by revbleech, on Flickr  20150914-DSC_8592 by revbleech, on Flickr
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Sep 21, 2015 04:43
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zeroprime posted:These are delightful. Try to frame it with a partial moon at your back and it will light up any snow/mountains you use to help frame your shot. Thanks!  The moon's currently pretty low on the horizon here, and it had set before the show really kicked off, so it wasn't around for me to use. Hopefully this winter will bring many clear nights. Once the snow is on everything I'm hoping the landscape will show a bit better.
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Sep 21, 2015 05:14
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I did a double exposure of myself and the Milky Way on a recent trip to Death Valley. It's beautiful out there!
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Sep 26, 2015 22:40
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That rules.
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Sep 26, 2015 23:09
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brandino posted:I did a double exposure of myself and the Milky Way on a recent trip to Death Valley. It's beautiful out there! That looks like an album cover from the 70s. And yes, I mean that as a compliment.
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Sep 27, 2015 05:46
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Yeah, I want to go buy a Bob Dylan album now 
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Sep 27, 2015 06:15
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Took a few photos of the super blood moon that was going on in the area. I really need a better tripod than the $20 amazon special.
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Sep 28, 2015 03:55
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Nice. I just got back from cycling around for an hour. Thick clouds, no wind. Not even a glimpse. 
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Sep 28, 2015 04:26
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I too shot the Moon. 2015-221 by Tom Rintjema, on Flickr  2015-223 by Tom Rintjema, on Flickr  2015-224 by Tom Rintjema, on Flickr  2015-225 by Tom Rintjema, on Flickr
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Sep 28, 2015 14:51
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Thorpe posted:Took a few photos of the super blood moon that was going on in the area. I really need a better tripod than the $20 amazon special. No. You need a faster shutter speed and higher ISO. The moon moves really fast.
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Sep 28, 2015 16:09
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I too shot the moon.
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Sep 28, 2015 19:43
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Nice pics. Cool to see it change color like that. Friggen stupid clouds here...
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Sep 28, 2015 20:01
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We're posting the butt moon? Cool.
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Sep 28, 2015 21:01
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cool moons
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Sep 28, 2015 21:32
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I took a couple of widefield shots: Lunar Eclipse Widefield by Justin Cowart, on Flickr  Lunar Eclipse Widefield by Justin Cowart, on Flickr
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Sep 28, 2015 21:57
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 Safe in the Harbor (Ometepe Island, Nicaragua) by Esa Foto, on Flickr
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Sep 29, 2015 04:20
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Pukestain Pal posted:No. You need a faster shutter speed and higher ISO. The moon moves really fast. I have an old pair of celestron 20x80 binoculars (~20x) and set them up one night trying to take a picture using my 2004 era consumer grade 4x digital camera and by the time I got the binoculars moved with the moon in frame, camera turned on and looking through the eye piece, the moon had moved half out of frame. This was the best photo I got after about an hour of flailing about  The moon will completely move through your field of view in about 35 seconds at 20x zoom, give or take. Moon moves crazy fast.
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Sep 29, 2015 09:43
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About 1 kilometer a second, even. Which is 2200 miles an hour. Vroom!
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Sep 29, 2015 19:28
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My (lovely) composite - I don't have anything interesting around here to set the moon against , just condos and trees, so I went for "all out focal length" and slapped stacked teleconverters on my 100-400mk2. So this is 6D, 1120mm, f/22 - This was pretty easy exposure wise for the bright moon shots (1/20, ISO 100) but rough as hell on the dark red (.8-1.6 sec, 3200-6400)  Edit: I told my wife we should buy an 800/5.6 before the next one in 2033. She did not agree with the basic gist of that plan. timrenzi574 fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Sep 29, 2015 |
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Sep 29, 2015 22:56
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Just put a few bucks away every week and by then you should have enough money for one.
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Sep 30, 2015 15:01
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TomR posted:Just put a few bucks away every week and by then you should have enough money for one. Yeah, something like 15 bucks a week would do it. Will never happen though , I have 2 little kids. That money would end up going elsewhere at some point
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Sep 30, 2015 15:13
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Wouldn't it make more sense to buy a telescope and mount your camera to that anyways? Telescopes can certainly be expensive but the ratio of dollar to focal length is more favorable.
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Sep 30, 2015 18:06
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xzzy posted:Wouldn't it make more sense to buy a telescope and mount your camera to that anyways? I was mostly joking - I wanted to see my wifes reaction when I told her we could buy a 13,000$ lens
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Sep 30, 2015 18:19
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Moon! 
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Are we still posting lunar eclipse photos!?  That second photo was an accident. I put the camera on auto, but didn't realize it would choose a 2.5 second shutter speed. It's not at all crisp, but I like the result, as it shows my setup: both pictures were taken handheld by pointing the camera into the eyepiece of a telescope. Are the rest of you using zoom lenses and tripods?
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Oct 7, 2015 01:20
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Moving on from moon photos.
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Oct 8, 2015 06:31
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Dread Head posted:Moving on from moon photos. How do you keep everything in focus at f/4.0? My own attempt was hampered a bit by wind, but I still think that the tent is badly out of focus: 
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DorianGravy posted:How do you keep everything in focus at f/4.0?
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Saint Fu posted:The DOF at 16mm is pretty wide even at F/4 This, and I focused on the tent, ideally it would have been f8 or more but needed more light.
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DorianGravy posted:How do you keep everything in focus at f/4.0? My own attempt was hampered a bit by wind, but I still think that the tent is badly out of focus: if it was windy, it's probably just the movement of the tent and not focusing. Also, as mentioned, f/4 at 16mm is really a large DOF.
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Oct 12, 2015 17:19
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nice 1 dread. Looks a lot like a spot in Sombrio that I camped at over the summer.
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A couple long exposures from my trip to BC last week: At sunrise in Sidney BC by Tyler Huestis, on Flickr Great Blue Heron in the fog by Tyler Huestis, on Flickr
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neckbeard posted:A couple long exposures from my trip to BC last week: I'm curious how it'd look without that building on the left.
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Oct 14, 2015 19:33
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Luckily you can emulate that by putting your hand on the screen
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Oct 14, 2015 20:40
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And get fingerprints on my top of the line 4k monitor? How dare you make that suggestion sir.
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Skizzzer posted:nice 1 dread. Looks a lot like a spot in Sombrio that I camped at over the summer. Was on the island but up in the mountains in Strathcona. One more from the same night. 
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The Locator posted:Not sure what really counts as a 'long' exposure, but I tried a few shots from my hotel balcony on a recent trip to San Diego. I got similar (probably worse) results from my hotel room in Dubai on Monday and I'm a bit pissed at myself. I was using a gorilla pod which isn't ideal but is the only thing small enough I could pack into carry on. Even at 5-10 seconds everything just came out blurry, and I feel like I wasted a really good opportunity. I'm lucky in that I got photos I really liked during the day, but a few good nighttime shots would've been the icing. I think this is my favourite thread, and I've totally cribbed on the posters who go out and shoot what some people think are mundane buildings at night. That is totally my poo poo, and the attempts I've done that came out alright got some praise on Facebook (which we all know is the only thing that truly matters). So keep doing that stuff, because as a to-be-UK-to-US transplant I still dig seeing odd looking Subway franchises in small town America.
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