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| Posted: Mon Feb 8th, 2016 01:28 |
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richw
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Looks good. Could you use the sky from the trails but the church from the first? Might make a nice composite.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 8th, 2016 03:55 |
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Robert
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Hi Rich, thanks for the suggestion. What is it that you prefer about the church from the first? Is it too dark? Is it overworked? Is it distorted badly? Or some other let down... I appreciate the critique, I wasn't completely happy with the image but not sure what was wrong. I don't have the intermediary image before I warped the church, I was trying to correct the perspective and make it look like a night time image, rather than a daytime image with stars... This is the image after stacking with gaps in the trails caused by me extracting light contaminated images before the blending process.  This is one of the frames I removed from the stack before blending because of the light contamination:  Edit Finally got back home so I could replace the image.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 8th, 2016 11:07 |
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amazing50
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Other than the star trail gaps the immage has come out quite well for this effect. Thinking about it, I am planning to shoot some trails, but with minimal foreground. Then shoot some foreground immages, exposed and corrected to look as night scenes. Combining in PS for the final print.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 8th, 2016 11:27 |
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Robert
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I posted a second image but am away right now and have managed to mangle the link to the second image.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10th, 2016 08:15 |
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Robert
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Have replaced the mangled image link. It's an example of the results of passing cars, About four cars passed the church during the sequence, I was able to shorten the sequence by not using early and late frames but the ones in the middle had to be extracted from the set.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10th, 2016 08:28 |
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Robert
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While this thread is entitled Gear for NightSky Photography, I don't think I am stretching the meaning too far to include software. I have found a very useful application called The Photographers Ephemeris, it calculates the sunrise, sunset and moonrise, moonset angles and times which is extremely useful for photography at twilight and at night so you can plan dates and times to take these photographs. http://photoephemeris.com/about After all photography is by definition dependent on light, it's good to know when it will be available and at what time on any given day. I am now regularly referring to the Ephemeris to plan my early and late photography.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10th, 2016 11:56 |
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jk
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Ephemeris is a brilliant application that I use if I am trying to plan a landscape shot. It shows many different things as well as the ones Robert mentioned. It shows moonrise, moonset, elevation, eclipses, etc.... The application os available on Mac and Windows plus iOS and Android.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 2nd, 2018 08:21 |
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Robert
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Might as well resurrect this thread as start another. Yes, JK it's really valuable for anybody wanting to plan the light. I was stunned by what happened yesterday morning at dawn after I took this star trail series. D3, 16mm f/2.8 fisheye, 56 images, 20 second intervals, 8 sec at f/8 ISO 1600. The main peaks to the right are, left to right: Yewbarrow, Kirk Fell, Great Gable, Lingmell and Scafell.  I was awoken at about 03:15 by the noisy arrival of a large group of people, several car loads of film crew then a large Transit van full of actresses or models, who proceeded to get changed in full view, the sheep seemed quite unimpressed!!! There were not many people about by then. The whole ensemble trekked off down to the shore of Wastwater, set up camera and do their thing. Just before dawn all the actresses trooped back to the van but the film crew remained... I started to take an interest, dawn was close, jumped out of car and ran down to the island, ignoring the film crew who seemed non too pleased to have company. As I leapt onto the island the sun broke, exactly between Great Gable and Lingmell. Absolutely perfect. Soon after, the film crew wandered off, presumably they got what they were waiting for. Now whether the film crew had planned it or simply lucky I don't know but so close after the solstice I wonder if they had been filming a pagan ritual or some such, I don't know. This is what I got, hand held, five shot HDR. D3, Nikkor 24-120 VR >< 500 sec at f/16 ISO 200  Back with the first image, unbeknown to me a 'Three Peaks' challenge was in progress The runners or walkers? can be seen with their lights ascending Scafell to the right, below Lingmell. I have taken quite a lot of images of the lights as they made their downward journey back to Wasdale Head for their drive through the night, down to Snowden in Wales. I may have enough to make a time lapse movie. It seems these events take place throughout the summer...
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| Posted: Fri Jul 6th, 2018 22:02 |
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amazing50
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The Nikon MC-36, 10 pin wired remote has a manual button lock. Works on the D850 and others with an adapter.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 7th, 2018 01:57 |
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jk
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Surprised you didnt go join the film crew that were making the event. I guess it was a piece to camera for sale somewhere. Like the sunrise shot. The 24-120 f4 really is a go to lens. Good spot of the lghts on Scafell. With all the HSE in modern life people resort to all sorts of more dangerous stuff to bring some adrenalin into a boring life!
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