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| Posted: Thu Jan 21st, 2016 03:44 |
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Robert
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Very good Mike, all about being in the right place at the right time. I had an adventurous time last evening... I have decided that star trails are boring. Yet, they hold a fascination. So I have decided to experiment with a combination of interesting subjects and incorporate star trail backgrounds. I haven't run the startrail software yet (StarStaX) but this is a taster, which will have startrails added later when I have finished the PP. I hadn't realised but I caught the aurora without realising it was there. When I moved to my second location I got a text alert of high solar energy but I wasn't going back! Nikon D300s, Nikkor 18-105 VR, @ 18mm, 30 Sec @ f4.5, ISO1600. A couple of stops over exposed, pulled some back in PP.  Coniston Water with the Old Man of Coniston in the background. My second location was Lowick Church, again still a bit over exposed @ f5.6, you can just see the effects of the aurora behind the church. Nikon D300s, Nikkor 18-105 VR, @ 18mm, 30 Sec @ f5.6, ISO1600.  Lowick Church at 7:15pm 20 Jan 2016
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21st, 2016 05:23 |
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Judith
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Oh, like the snowy hills! No snow at all where I am. It doesn't really lie on the coast.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21st, 2016 08:44 |
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jk
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Judith, Aurora over distillery works fine for me.  Plenty of distilleries in your area!
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21st, 2016 12:07 |
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amazing50
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With only about 5 hours of daylight at this time of year they have plenty of time and mainly clear skies to get these shots. Another one by Jake Paleczny, Wood Bison under the Aurora Borealis at the Yukon Wildlife Preserve. Attachment: Wood Bison under the Aurora Borealis at the Yukon Wildlife Preserve.jpg (Downloaded 44 times)
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21st, 2016 12:27 |
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jk
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Robert did you intentionally over-expose the top image? It was probably the extra exposure that allowed you to capture the aurora.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21st, 2016 15:03 |
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Robert
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jk wrote:Robert did you intentionally over-expose the top image? Not really JK, it was pretty well dark when I took that but the effect of the 85% moon, reflections and the fact I was trying to bring the pier into prominence, having taken a few trial exposure was what I plumped for. Once chosen I had to stick with it. I was literally groping in the dark, at each venue I reduced the exposure. The great benefit of using NEF's is it gives me much more latitude while still retaining decent quality. The first exposure I made of the church it looked like bright sunlight! I'm not used to having usable ISO1600 at my fingertips! The image quality of the church isn't the best but I am quite relaxed about that, it helps to show it wasn't taken in daylight and gives it a rugged appearance, to me it adds character. The stars are sharp enough, If I really wanted I could reduce the number of church images stacked by masking the church from the sky, I am sure its due to very slight movement of the tripod or the camera during the 30 minutes I made the exposures for. Whoops! I hadn't added the star track image of the church! I need a responsible adult to keep an eye on me... Point of interest, you can see time on the sundial, in this case, moondial, it's about right. This image is layered with 48 images taken at 34 second intervals using the D300s and Nikkor 18-105 VR. 
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21st, 2016 17:54 |
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Robert
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OK I have done the second one, the Parkamoor Coniston Pier with the Old Man of Coniston in the background. The aurora is better than I thought, I wish I had known it was displaying, I would have stayed longer I only have about 70 frames which isn't really long enough for time-lapse with a frame rate of 24fps. 
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21st, 2016 18:15 |
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Judith
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I like both of them.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 22nd, 2016 04:20 |
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Robert
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Thanks Judith, Just a bit torn as to how dark to make it, given how bright the original exposures are it's difficult to make it look like a dark night, yet still show the scene. Exposure adjustments need to be made before the images are stacked because StarStax only outputs in JPEG, which limits options and quality for final adjustments. After the stacking there is quite a bit of tidying up to do, for some reason the star trails appear to be in front of the tree branches so they need clone work and some of the star trails have gaps which need filling manually, there are also some artefact bright pixels which need cloning out. I may use Photoshop for my next attempt... Another clamber up Photoshops learning curve!
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| Posted: Fri Jan 22nd, 2016 05:44 |
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jk
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Perversely, I prefer the church with star trails but the fells and lake without trails.
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