The *Official Photography Thread*

You could try stacking as a method for making trails. Something like this maybe?

 

i have looked at that.

 

Just the enfuse plugin. I turned all of the parameters to 0, though I don't quite understand those yet, I just figured that way it might change the colors the least.

Hmm...I'll have to look into that some more. Right now I have a plugin for lightroom that seems to work pretty well. I haven't taken any star trail photos that need stacking, I have always just changed the exposure time. Maybe next weekend I'll go try to find somewhere dark-ish to try to do some trails with stacking instead of long exposures.

 

ahh okay. Was just curious if you had used enfuse or not.

 

You will want to check the phase of the moon and moon rise. TPE is a good tool for that.

 

What settings did U shoot these on?

 

Shot this sunday. would love to hear your thoughts.

 

Looks good. Only thing I think I would have done different is shoot earlier or later in the day to avoid the blown out background. Other than that I like them.

 

Nice, I can only use CF cards, so I ended up getting four 16GB cards.

 

Big money there. One of the reasons I don't really want to go FF cause most take CF cards.

 

I think the first photo could use a new crop. IMO your subjects get lost in the background and it makes them look small. Also the lady blends into the background slightly so I'd see if you might be able to add a little contrast to help fix it.

The second and third photo might be aided with a high contrast B&W edit. Anytime I have a photo with blown out skies, I usually try to bring it back either with a B&W edit or I use the HSL palate in Lightroom

 

B&H usually has good deals on CF cards

 

Whoooaaa that's really cool! I'll download the desktop version later today after class. Thanks!

Canon T2i with 18-55mm kit lens zoomed all the way out to 18mm.
The trail shot:
f/9
2700 seconds
ISO-400

The still shot:
f/3.5
30 seconds
ISO-400

 

I already have too big of a list for B&H. They know my address very well.

I did get 2 SanDisk 32g sdxc UHS-1 extreme cards there on Black Friday for $59.98.

 

Imma have to breakdown and buy myself my own camera. I bought my gf the canon sl1 and now that I have learned a good but I need one cause I keep stealing hers haha.

 

always thought that was odd..

 

There are a bunch of different apps that are worth looking at.

Star Walk (interactive night sky), MiLapse (Time lapse calculator), Sun Seeker (sun's path), Moon Seeker (moon's path), Light Setup (so you can diagram light setups), and of course, TPE. I also use Camp Where to find places to camp and Doggoes for finding dog friendly places.

If I had to pick just a couple, TPE and Star Walk would be the most useful.

 

I use sky key. It's pretty nice.

 

It is a pretty nice app. Especially for free and there are only a couple of things it doesn't do as well-when you're working with the night sky.

It's nice to select your shooting angle and even figure out what time you'll be shooting (like when you want the MW to be in a given position), Star Walk lets you scroll easily through the clock and see the sky-that gives you a rough idea how a timelapse will look for the start/stop time.

SkyKey is pretty good. Thanks for sharing that.

 

More stars. Some of these look more like the sky is falling

IMG_7718_stack_edit_small by 92shawman, on Flickr


IMG_7711_stack_edit_small by 92shawman, on Flickr


IMG_7691_blend2_edit_small by 92shawman, on Flickr

Found another picture I could stack with that blend I posted earlier:

IMG_7721_stack_edit_small by 92shawman, on Flickr