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I dig this, and things like it. Dudeabides posted:Is this Northwest Philly? Close! Austin, TX. My latest long exposure: 
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DorianGravy posted:Does anyone have advice for photographing constellations? Whenever I photograph starfields, the bright stars don't stand out as much as they do to the naked eye. For example, here's Orion. Is there any photography technique that emphasizes the bright stars more? This is 30 seconds at f/4.5 at ISO-3200. I don't have a tracking mount. I have found a lower ISO and longer exposure (15-25 seconds) helps. The lower ISO cuts out a lot of the noise from the other stars. Here are a couple of mine from this weekend.  IMG_4302 by Jack , on Flickr IMG_4199 by Jack , on Flickr IMG_4177 by Jack , on FlickrShort time lapse. ****Cleaned up pictures, should see stars better now**** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFa3M7sY2MU jvick fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Apr 5, 2016 |
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Pickup up a Lumix G7 this weekend, went out and played with the timelapse feature. I'm pretty terrible at this, but I think it turned out ok. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8xzZXPyTxs
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Star Trails from the ISS: http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/04/04/what-do-star-trails-look-like-from-the-iss/#543ff3db47eb
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Holy crap Forbes is super snotty about ad blockers these days. edit - direct link to flickr album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa_jsc_photo/sets/72157629726792248/
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xzzy posted:Holy crap Forbes is super snotty about ad blockers these days.
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Bill Barber posted:Nice sense of motion here, NASA. Some look like they are in Tron.
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Time lapse of the full moon rising the other night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o6rEcpp4Yk
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Does 10 seconds count as long exposure? I walked around DC for 4 hours tonight, I think this is the best one I got, even though it's the most cliched shot of DC you can take. I had to do a ton of post to get rid of the high ISO noise and I'm not really happy with how it turned out. 
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CommanderApaul posted:Does 10 seconds count as long exposure? What ISO/aperture did you shoot this at? It's quite blurry. Also, did you use a tripod or just leave it on a flat surface?
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huhu posted:What ISO/aperture did you shoot this at? It's quite blurry. Also, did you use a tripod or just leave it on a flat surface? I had it on a gorillapod on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. I used Lightrooms built-in presets and it kinda blew everything out, I was exhausted when I got back to the hotel last night. I'm going through some of them with Nik tools now and that's working much better. 10 seconds at f/22, ISO 3200. I realized this morning that I left ISO at Auto the whole time I was down there and about 75% of my shots look like rear end. If the rain holds off I may go back down tonight and try again. Tips would be helpful, I've got an 18-55, a 28-135 3.5/5.6 and a 50 1.8. 
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CommanderApaul posted:I had it on a gorillapod on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. I used Lightrooms built-in presets and it kinda blew everything out, I was exhausted when I got back to the hotel last night. I'm going through some of them with Nik tools now and that's working much better. I think it's probably your liberal use of noise reduction that's making it look bad. 3200 won't be horrible.
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CommanderApaul posted:I had it on a gorillapod on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. I used Lightrooms built-in presets and it kinda blew everything out, I was exhausted when I got back to the hotel last night. I'm going through some of them with Nik tools now and that's working much better. With such a far subject distance, you should be able to shoot wide open and still get a solid depth of field. If you're curious you can check out the DOF calculator here: http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html Use your 2s self-timer because taking a picture causes the camera to shake a slight bit. Try to lower your ISO and take use longer shutter speeds. Turn off image stabilization since you're using a tripod.
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huhu posted:With such a far subject distance, you should be able to shoot wide open and still get a solid depth of field. If you're curious you can check out the DOF calculator here: http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html Use your 2s self-timer because taking a picture causes the camera to shake a slight bit. Try to lower your ISO and take use longer shutter speeds. Turn off image stabilization since you're using a tripod. Thank you! I'll give all this a shot tonight (I was thinking enough to use the timer)
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Are you sure your gorillapod is heavy enough to hold the camera without moving then? Because you defintiely have camera shake in those photos, and if you used the self timer you shouldn't have.
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HookShot posted:Are you sure your gorillapod is heavy enough to hold the camera without moving then? Because you defintiely have camera shake in those photos, and if you used the self timer you shouldn't have. I think it's liberal use of noise reduction, not camera shake.
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Original: Nik Tools Editing: 
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CommanderApaul posted:Original: No matter what you do, you aren't saving this photo. Sliders to 11!
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Yeah, I was hoping I just didn't suck but in the end, there it is.  Thanks for the criticism and suggestions and I'll see if I can't figure this out if I go back down tonight. Flying back home on Friday afternoon.
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CommanderApaul posted:Yeah, I was hoping I just didn't suck but in the end, there it is. Long exposures on the mall are like easy mode. You'll get it figured out.
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CommanderApaul posted:Yeah, I was hoping I just didn't suck but in the end, there it is. For the future, practice on random crap so that when you're actually in a cool place you'll be ready. Star photos - practice from your backyard, sports - practice with your animals/kids running around, panning - practice on cars, etc.
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vxsarin posted:I think it's liberal use of noise reduction, not camera shake. Look at the lights though in the full-size version of the one with the cars in the parking lot though. Sure, everything else is super fuzzy, but the lights look like he tried shooting stars for 30s with an 18mm lens and got just a bit of movement in them. The ones with the big pool in them look still to me, but I'm pretty sure the one with cars is more than just sliding the noise reduction slider to the right. But yeah, good luck tonight for sure!!
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Redemption (hopefully). Managed to get drenched walking 2 miles back to the silver line in the pouring rain for my troubles. Manually set the ISO to 100 and the      Edit: fixed, I am wet, cold and tired and my brain is no longer working. CommanderApaul fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Apr 29, 2016 |
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I think you're mixing up shutter with aperture. These shots are technically a lot better though.
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Yeah, nice job
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Setting the aperture to smaller than f/16 might introduce refraction issues, depending on your lens. Just look up where the sweet spot for your particular lens is and stick to that when you can.
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Eta aquarid watching 
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My first real meteor shower in truly dark skies. Turned out pretty good. This is a aquarid meteor. 
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toggle posted:My first real meteor shower in truly dark skies. Turned out pretty good. This is a aquarid meteor. This is cool, nice catch of the meteor! Big fan of wide field astronomy shots. Hoping to get out of the city and capture the milky way soon. I took this last night, experimenting with long exposure traffic. I think it turned out pretty well.  Kansas City Skyline by John, on Flickr
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Stochastic posted:I took this last night, experimenting with long exposure traffic. I think it turned out pretty well. It sure did.
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Is four seconds long? Kosice June-52.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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Stochastic posted:This is cool, nice catch of the meteor! Big fan of wide field astronomy shots. Hoping to get out of the city and capture the milky way soon. Cheers! Here's a short little timelapse of the shower. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJP1i6ZxdNA
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toggle posted:Cheers! Whoa, awesome timelapse. What is your method for making those videos? Stitching together many still frames or do you speed up captured video? I drove about an hour out of the city where I live to take some photos of the Milky Way during the last new moon. It turned out pretty well, but next time I'm going to try to take more exposures and stack them together to reduce noise.  Milky Way Ultra Wide by John, on Flickr  Milky Way 50 mm by John, on Flickr
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Stochastic posted:Whoa, awesome timelapse. What is your method for making those videos? Stitching together many still frames or do you speed up captured video? Thanks! Yeah, they are individual frames (240 shots at 20 second exposures) all sequenced up in After Effects. Mostly shot on a GH4 which isn't the best at low light/night photography.
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Stochastic posted:Whoa, awesome timelapse. What is your method for making those videos? Stitching together many still frames or do you speed up captured video? Nice ones. Stacking is where it's at, especially when you have a nice AP setup that can track for long periods. Deep Sky Stacker is good, but I broke down and bought a license for PixInsight back in the day. It's basically like it's own operating system, but man can it do some poo poo once you get into it. Astrophotography is what got my interest in photography a long time ago. I need to get back into it, but it's such a time consuming process when it takes 45 minutes to set up and 45 minutes to tear down in 0 degree weather. I'm in a nice remote location now with land and have been toying with the idea of building a permanent observatory in the top of my pole barn and getting new bad rear end equipment. I probably posted these years ago, but here are a couple of my favorites from my old system (Celestron CGEM,StellarVue 80ED,Orion 80ST,Starshoot Autoguider,Self Modded Canon 1000D): This was a stack of 5x6 minute exposures:  Lagoon & Trifid Nebula 7-21-2012 by Eli J, on Flickr Stack of 15x240 seconds:  Orion & Running Man Nebula by Eli J, on Flickr Stack of 10x360sec, 15x180sec. Dark subtraction.  Horsehead & Flame Nebula by Eli J, on Flickr These are nothing compared to a lot of AP stuff, but I am still proud of them. Not really long exposure, but solar filters are fun to play with too:  Venus Transit - June 6, 2012 by Eli J, on Flickr
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