bruni wrote:
Yeah, me too. The lady eating the apple is great.
Ben
Thanks guys!
Those weather shelters are a throwback to the Victorian era.
If I lived on the coast it would be nice project to take images of them across the seasons.
We went out Tues night to shoot the comet again, this time at an old, abandoned house/homestead where we have shot sunset set and Milky Way before. Somehow I got distracted loading the car and I left my 105 attached to my Df at home
I did have the 35-200mm zoom and an adapter for my Sony - so that's what I used. Unfortunately it is only f4.5 at that focal length, so the image is a bit noisy. This is an 8 sec exposure at 135 (I think). I was surprised at how little star trail I got at this exposure time. I guess the stars move much more slowly in the northern part of the sky compared to the Ecliptic. Perhaps I could have increased the time a bit more than I thought I could. Also, a bit more cloudy that Monday night.
One nice benefit of getting out to shoot the comet is that as it is setting and the sky is loosing the last vestiges of the evening light - just turn around and there/s the Milky Way. So, we went to the other side of the house and I took some astro shots - pop over to the Loxia site to see that.
I am becoming a night person and I am getting used to all those strange sounds around one at that time of night
graytrekker wrote:
We went out Tues night to shoot the comet again, this time at an old, abandoned house/homestead where we have shot sunset set and Milky Way before. Somehow I got distracted loading the car and I left my 105 attached to my Df at home
I did have the 35-200mm zoom and an adapter for my Sony - so that's what I used. Unfortunately it is only f4.5 at that focal length, so the image is a bit noisy. This is an 8 sec exposure at 135 (I think). I was surprised at how little star trail I got at this exposure time. I guess the stars move much more slowly in the northern part of the sky compared to the Ecliptic. Perhaps I could have increased the time a bit more than I thought I could. Also, a bit more cloudy that Monday night.
One nice benefit of getting out to shoot the comet is that as it is setting and the sky is loosing the last vestiges of the evening light - just turn around and there/s the Milky Way. So, we went to the other side of the house and I took some astro shots - pop over to the Loxia site to see that.
I am becoming a night person and I am getting used to all those strange sounds around one at that time of night
graytrekker wrote:
We went out Tues night to shoot the comet again, this time at an old, abandoned house/homestead where we have shot sunset set and Milky Way before. Somehow I got distracted loading the car and I left my 105 attached to my Df at home
I did have the 35-200mm zoom and an adapter for my Sony - so that's what I used. Unfortunately it is only f4.5 at that focal length, so the image is a bit noisy. This is an 8 sec exposure at 135 (I think). I was surprised at how little star trail I got at this exposure time. I guess the stars move much more slowly in the northern part of the sky compared to the Ecliptic. Perhaps I could have increased the time a bit more than I thought I could. Also, a bit more cloudy that Monday night.
One nice benefit of getting out to shoot the comet is that as it is setting and the sky is loosing the last vestiges of the evening light - just turn around and there/s the Milky Way. So, we went to the other side of the house and I took some astro shots - pop over to the Loxia site to see that.
I am becoming a night person and I am getting used to all those strange sounds around one at that time of night
Formal gardens and landscape at the National Historic Site of Hampton just north of Baltimore.
Ektachrome E100 with Wista SP and Nikkor-SW 75mm lens. Developed with Arista E6 kit. Somewhat underexposed, so had to play around in Photoshop to bring up the brightness. So either the metering was wrong, or the shutter on the lens is off at 1/4s, or the chemicals are getting old, or my development temperature or times were off or who knows
Have been following the thread in lurking mode only during the week.
Superb pics of the comet, other Montana night scenery and sunset Doug! Kristian, that's quite a landscape!
Rafael's product pictures of his gear are always welcome as well as his ongoing test samples taken with them. Ken, cool shots outside the market in Staunton.
Dean, enjoying your ultramax pics, the colours, the quality of the 55 1.2 all come together very nicely with your F100.
Colin, the IR pictures have been inspiring. Reminds me of the Rollei 400 still in the freezer.
saph wrote:
...So either the metering was wrong, or the shutter on the lens is off at 1/4s, or the chemicals are getting old, or my development temperature or times were off or who knows
