Thanks, Ronny. Amazing lightning in that last shot.
rji2goleez wrote:
I'm returning home from my trip to Banff National Park, Canada tomorrow. Lot's to got through. While the weather didn't quite cooperate with the epic scenery, it's just a magnificent place. It seemed like when we wanted clouds we either had too many (overcast) or too few. When we wanted to do some astrophotography, we had clouds and no milky way.
Here's a few of my quick favorites. They're not quite done on the post end but certainly good enough to share.
Welcome back, Bob. Very impressive first set, in particular the reflections are amazing. Looking forward to seeing more no doubt great shots.
One brief comment re milky way: You probably are aware of this already, but just in case: Even without clouds, it probably would have been very hard to get detailed shots of the milky way even in the clean air of Banff this week, because of moon light. In the current moon phase, you would have very little time without bright moon light effecting your shots. I checked briefly the other day and had I gone out to do some astrophotography here in Japan (I didn't, I was too tired and the weather wasn't great either), I would have had only one hour or so in the early morning without moonlight. Great milky way shots usually require clean air, no clouds, great seeing, little/no light pollution, low humidity and preferably a new moon, which makes them so difficult to get.
Chris_88 wrote:
Thanks, Ronny. Amazing lightning in that last shot.
Welcome back, Bob. Very impressive first set, in particular the reflections are amazing. Looking forward to seeing more no doubt great shots.
One brief comment re milky way: You probably are aware of this already, but just in case: Even without clouds, it probably would have been very hard to get detailed shots of the milky way even in the clean air of Banff this week, because of moon light. In the current moon phase, you would have very little time without bright moon light effecting your shots. I checked briefly the other day and had I gone out to do some astrophotography here in Japan (I didn't, I was too tired and the weather wasn't great either), I would have had only one hour or so in the early morning without moonlight. Great milky way shots usually require clean air, no clouds, great seeing, little/no light pollution, low humidity and preferably a new moon, which makes them so difficult to get. ...Show more →
Thanks Chris! Yeah, we knew we had only a short window just before dawn. By then, the moon had set. What we didn't get was the clean crisp air. By today, the temperature and humidity had gone up significantly such that sunrise and sunset were also taken away from us. But a bad photo day in Banff is still better than a good day in the office!
Photo taken at 5:20 PM on June 9, 2015 of a radio collared Doe White Tail Deer and 3 of her 4 recently born Fawns in my campground at Big Meadows, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Image fairly heavily cropped and taken hand held out of my van window with my A7r and my Leica M 90mm f2.5 Summarit lens; ISO 400, lens set to f2.5 at 1/500 second. Exposure corrected by +0.71 stops.
While on the patio yesterday enjoying a cookout with friends, I spotted this shaft of light going straight up as the sun was setting. It lasted long enough for me to go inside, grab my camera, put it on the tripod and take a few AEB exposures. I later discovered that this phenomenon is known as a Sun Pillar
Exif was stripped during merging 5 exposures but this was taken using my a7rII + Batis 25 @ f8.
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