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runawayturtles: Aug 2, 2004

BANME.sh posted:

Spent about an hour as well but was too early I think (only about midnight) because I only saw maybe half a dozen in that entire timespan. Managed to get a couple that I am 99% sure they're planes or satellites and definitely not meteors

Yep, one of each, still nice photos though.

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# ? Jun 5, 2024 15:09

PREYING MANTITS: Mar 13, 2003; and that's how you get ants.

BANME.sh posted:

Spent about an hour as well but was too early I think (only about midnight) because I only saw maybe half a dozen in that entire timespan. Managed to get a couple that I am 99% sure they're planes or satellites and definitely not meteors

Awesome scenery though! That first one is my favorite, good shots.

# ? Aug 15, 2016 08:12

jackpot: Aug 31, 2004; First cousin to the Black Rabbit himself. Such was Woundwort's monument...and perhaps it would not have displeased him.<

BANME.sh posted:

Managed to get a couple that I am 99% sure they're planes or satellites and definitely not meteors

Same. Way too many times I'd scroll through my shots and see what I thought was something great, until I moved to the next frame ...and the next ... and kept seeing the same "meteor."

# ? Aug 15, 2016 16:24

oldmandon: Feb 10, 2004; OMG! It's OMD!

PREYING MANTITS posted:

Spent about an hour watching the show. Saw tons in directions I wasn't pointing the camera but managed to get a few. This was the brightest.

What's the bright one in the top right?

BANME.sh posted:

You got Andromeda in this shot too. Awesome.

# ? Aug 16, 2016 08:32

PREYING MANTITS: Mar 13, 2003; and that's how you get ants.

oldmandon posted:

What's the bright one in the top right?

That caught my eye too, looked at it closer and I'd say the majority is just aberration off what I think is the star Vega

# ? Aug 16, 2016 11:40

BANME.sh: Jan 23, 2008; What is this??
Are you some kind of hypnotist??; Grimey Drawer

oldmandon posted:

You got Andromeda in this shot too. Awesome.

I was wondering what that was. Thought maybe a planet. :krad:

# ? Aug 16, 2016 16:37

xzzy: Mar 5, 2009

What kind of settings were people using? I was a in a pretty dark area near Los Alamos and got jack poo poo. Is there a minimum ISO needed to catch meteors?

Because max aperture at iso 800 wasn't catching poo poo even though I was sure I was pointed at a number of very good meteors. Unfortunately my body is rather old and images turn into a swarm of noise when I go to 1600 or higher at night. Is there a trick I missed other than "buy a better camera you moron"?

How did people photograph meteors 5-10 years ago?

# ? Aug 17, 2016 05:06

BANME.sh: Jan 23, 2008; What is this??
Are you some kind of hypnotist??; Grimey Drawer

I was doing 20 seconds at f2.8 and 800 ISO. Super wide aperture is a must. I'm guessing in the film days people were using a combination of a super fast lens and high speed film. Film rated 800 or higher wasn't that uncommon back then.

# ? Aug 17, 2016 05:49

huhu: Feb 24, 2006

I did 5s, f1.8, ISO 1600. What's your max aperture?

# ? Aug 17, 2016 15:58

jackpot: Aug 31, 2004; First cousin to the Black Rabbit himself. Such was Woundwort's monument...and perhaps it would not have displeased him.<

I was shooting at f/2.8, and went back and forth between 800 ISO at 30 seconds, or 1600 ISO at 15s, sometimes longer. Some of my better images were made at 800/30s but I wish I'd made them at 1600/15s: 30s is borderline too long, things start to get fuzzy due to movement. Noise-wise I can hardly tell a difference, but I didn't know that at the time.

# ? Aug 17, 2016 16:22

huhu: Feb 24, 2006

How about you guys post some of the pictures you shot?

I took this:

Palm Tree and Stars (Cocle, Panama) by Esa Foto, on Flickr

with a garbage camera that didn't really function past 800ISO. This shot was F1.8, 16s, ISO1600 and I didn't even have a tripod, just set my camera flat on the ground and pointed it straight up.

# ? Aug 17, 2016 16:51

Alpenglow: Mar 12, 2007

Kites!

# ? Aug 22, 2016 05:11

Business of Ferrets: Mar 2, 2008; Good to see that everything is back to normal.

Alpenglow posted:

Kites!

That's cool!

# ? Aug 22, 2016 06:02

ogopogo: Jul 16, 2006; Remember: no matter where you go, there you are.

Alpenglow posted:

Kites!

This is rad!

This is 11 images stitched together, which gives it that pronounced fish-eye look -

16mm, patience, and finger crossing.

# ? Aug 23, 2016 03:38

Shrieking Muppet: Jul 16, 2006

Friend of mine introduced me to the group of hippies and fire spinners she used to run with when she still lived in the area, this is alot of fun trying to figure out how to get the the right exposure for fire trails.

Albany Spin Jam by Shrieking Muppet, on Flickr

# ? Aug 23, 2016 22:33

Krakkles: May 5, 2003

Getting so many ideas I love from this thread. Thanks, y'all.

# ? Aug 24, 2016 03:39

PREYING MANTITS: Mar 13, 2003; and that's how you get ants.

Alpenglow posted:

Really digging the colors in this one, great work.

ogopogo posted:

This is really cool, I've tried to do the panorama stitching of milky way shots and it never really comes out as good as that.

Goddamn light pollution. This thing is sitting in the middle of a field but it's sorta close to a road full of ugly sodium vapor lights and off to the right is a baseball field with ridiculous stadium lighting. If there's ever a power outage I'm revisiting this.

# ? Aug 24, 2016 05:44

xzzy: Mar 5, 2009

Unfortunately to get rid of light pollution you probably got a long drive ahead of you.

http://darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html

To fully escape light pollution, you gotta haul your butt to the spots that are 100% black.. like southeast utah.

# ? Aug 24, 2016 19:18

PREYING MANTITS: Mar 13, 2003; and that's how you get ants.

xzzy posted:

Unfortunately to get rid of light pollution you probably got a long drive ahead of you.

http://darksitefinder.com/maps/world.html

To fully escape light pollution, you gotta haul your butt to the spots that are 100% black.. like southeast utah.

drat, that map is cool but depressing. Not the best but there's a few blue spots that aren't extremely far away, I might have to road trip over to those and see what I can find there.

For reference levels the tank photo was taken in an orange zone. I live in a brighter green zone and the milky way is just barely visible on very clear nights.

PREYING MANTITS fucked around with this message at 11:24 on Aug 25, 2016

# ? Aug 25, 2016 11:21

Zank Frappa: Oct 16, 2006; Freak me out Frank.

I'm brand new to photography and especially night time photography, got my first hot pixels! These were taken taken near the Franz Joseph glacier where there are glow worms in the rainforest.
Is there anything I can do to reduce noise other than a nicer sensor?

DSC_0489 -3 by Cantebury Nz, on Flickr

DSC_0571 - Copy -2 by Cantebury Nz, on Flickr

# ? Sep 7, 2016 13:56

HookShot: Dec 26, 2005

I don't see any hot pixels there.

Shoot at a lower ISO/longer exposure if you want it to be less noisy.

# ? Sep 7, 2016 17:52

underage at the vape shop: May 11, 2011; by Cyrano4747

It's hard to make it look right but mucking around with the red channel on the curves can help a bit.

# ? Sep 9, 2016 08:58

-Anders: Feb 1, 2007; Denmark. Wait, what?

I tried to get something cool and starry out of the bridge I live by, but it's kind of hard when it's all kinds of lit up. It is a cool bridge though. The longest suspension bridge in the world when it was built.

Kors�r - DSC04517 by Anders Folkmar Belling Kraneled, on Flickr

# ? Sep 12, 2016 18:11

Lhet: Apr 2, 2008; bloop

Went to a nighttime photography talk at a camera store's opening, then later that night the power went out hanging out with friends, so I ended up trying out some long exposures. All I had for lighting was candles and a flashlight, and most of the shots were blurry or super underexposed (I really should have bumped the iso above 200, but in the dark the pictures looked bright enough on my camera screen).
Here's one that kinda came out alright, (though still tons of things to improve, and still dark after a basic pass of inexperienced editing).

(maybe a bit too blue? (original was a fair bit darker)

Also my dog.

Got me excited to go out try this out more though (hopefully before winter gets too cold).

Lhet fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Sep 13, 2016

# ? Sep 12, 2016 22:46

DorianGravy: Sep 12, 2007

From the Guadalupe Mountains in west Texas.

# ? Sep 13, 2016 03:54

Drewski: Apr 15, 2005; Good thing Vader didn't touch my bike. Good thing for him.

This is the view of Tokyo from Tokyo Tower. I couldn't deal with the glass pane reflecting a lot of light. :/

I was pretty stoked about being able to get the ferris wheel and rainbow bridge somewhat focused and some street head/brake lights blurred. I didn't have a tripod and could only set the camera down on a countertop.

# ? Sep 16, 2016 03:40

Business of Ferrets: Mar 2, 2008; Good to see that everything is back to normal.

Lincoln Memorial by Business Ferrets, on Flickr

# ? Sep 16, 2016 04:24

EL BROMANCE: Jun 10, 2006; COWABUNGA DUDES!
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Drewski posted:

I didn't have a tripod and could only set the camera down on a countertop.

Ah nice, I was wondering how you got it looking sharp (on my phone it looks good). I tried shooting from the stupidly tall one in Dubai I can't remember the name of without and support, but just couldn't nail the sharpness if I wanted to get any trails in the lights.

# ? Sep 16, 2016 08:03

a cyberpunk goose: May 21, 2007

indoor pool by Max Piepenbrink, on Flickr

some goold ol' portra reciprocity

# ? Sep 19, 2016 06:09

CommanderApaul: Aug 30, 2003; It's amazing their hands can support such awesome.

We went to Florida during the Perseids and while the weather didn't cooperate well enough to catch any meteors, I did get some nice night shots from the beach.

IMG_5369-Edit by Andrew Elrod, on Flickr

IMG_5394-Edit by Andrew Elrod, on Flickr

# ? Sep 23, 2016 01:27

crap nerd: May 24, 2008

crap nerd fucked around with this message at 12:21 on Sep 24, 2016

# ? Sep 24, 2016 12:07

LampkinsMateSteve: Jan 1, 2005; I've really fucked it. Have I fucked it?

CommanderApaul posted:

We went to Florida during the Perseids and while the weather didn't cooperate well enough to catch any meteors, I did get some nice night shots from the beach.

Those are really neat!

# ? Sep 24, 2016 21:50

EL BROMANCE: Jun 10, 2006; COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬

Yeah, totally makes me wish I did more research and tried to get something here (Florida too). Good work!

# ? Sep 25, 2016 01:24

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

CommanderApaul posted:

IMG_5394-Edit by Andrew Elrod, on Flickr

nice

# ? Sep 25, 2016 01:40

xzzy: Mar 5, 2009

The perseids are way harder than I had imagined. I read all those stories of "200 meteors an hour!" and figured I'd come home with zillions of streaks.

Nope. It's a loving chore and you better be ready to stay out all night.

# ? Sep 25, 2016 04:07

HookShot: Dec 26, 2005

Yeah, I was out for 2 hours (until the sprinklers in the park came on at 3am lol) and didn't get a single one :negative:

# ? Sep 25, 2016 05:19

CommanderApaul: Aug 30, 2003; It's amazing their hands can support such awesome.

xzzy posted:

The perseids are way harder than I had imagined. I read all those stories of "200 meteors an hour!" and figured I'd come home with zillions of streaks.

Nope. It's a loving chore and you better be ready to stay out all night.

They're better in the morning than at night, and the moon this year made it really hard to catch anything.