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Engl.: Broadcasts of "Radio Polaris"
Rus.: Вещает "Радио Полярной звезды"
Tech.details-brief: Sony Alpha 7R2 / ILCE-7Rm2 (FF)(ISO3200), Sony LA-EA3 + Tokina AT-X Pro SD 11-16 F2.8 (IF) DX(16mm f/2.8), 25s*60frames(Sony camera application for timelaps,Startrails); RAW stacking
Panorama of the Three Sisters in Goblin Valley State Park, Utah, USA. This was 15 vertical images combined on photoshop, although there has been cropping from both sides. Taken with a Canon 6D camera, Canon 16-35mm lens at 16 mm and f 2.8, ISO 6400, 30 sec exposures.
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Captured is the glowing presence of newborn light as he crowns just below the desert floor. For an instant, the surface of the earth is neither completely lit nor completely dark. And in a moment, terrestrial life will fade away and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the past will fade into the unknown future.
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Ancient Bristlecone Pines in Bryce Canyon National Park, with the Milky Way above. Canon 6D, Camera, Bower 24mm f 1.4 lens at f 2.0, 20 sec. exposure, ISO 6400.
The trees are amazing. These trees can live up to and beyond 5,000 years. The wood is resistant to rot and insects, and when they die they erode by wind and water, much like a rock, and the trunk can remain standing for centuries. There are some standing trunks that are believed to have died in the 1600's or earlier. They grow slowly in nutrient poor soils where few other plants will grow, and as a result they have very little competition for the resources. They typically grow from 1,700 to 3,400 meters elevation (5,600 feet to 11,200 feet). Hope you enjoy!
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An arch of stars and an arch of stone. Panorama of Broken Arch at night, with the Milky Way above. Arches National Park, Utah, USA. This is a re-edit of an image from last summer that I was not happy with. There was a lot of airglow that night. Previously I thought this interfered with the beauty of the sky and tried to get rid of it. In this version I have left it unchanged except for increasing the contrast and vibrance, The glow on the horizon is light pollution from Moab, Utah.
This is a panorama of 24 vertical images stitches together in photoshop. Acquired with a Rokinon 24 mm f/1.4 lens at f 1.8, 20 sec exposures, ISO 6400.
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Yep! Another selfie, but hey, i guess i´m not that ugly for you to see me a little more.
It´s quite difficult to stay still in the middle of a cold winter night, so i look a little blurry. Well! who cares, i just wanted to share this nice moment with you =)
I enjoy astrophotos so much!
Panorama Of Double Arch in Arches National Park, Utah. This is a re-edit of a image I was not satisfied with from last summer. This is a combination of 20 vertical images stitched together in photoshop, taken with a 15 mm Sigma fisheye lens. The idea was to capture both arches as well as the Milky Way seen through the "roof". I have removed some of the distortion in photoshop. Canon 6D, Sigma 15 mm fisheye lens at f/2.8, 30 sec exposures, ISO 6400. The light pollution in the distance is from the town of Moab, Utah. The distortion is from trying to make the inside of a spherical object fit into a rectangle. Pretend that the image is folded around your sides and head!
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A Frozen Night at Nubble Light
York, Maine
Happy Belated Valentine's Day, everyone! Here's a photo from Wednesday morning, Feb 12th. I have a similar photo of Nubble Light with the Milky Way from last February, but I couldn't resist getting a new shot of it with lots of snow. The snow looks pink because of the red light of the lighthouse. Venus is seen rising to the right of the island.
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Stargazing over the geyser. Even the well-known constellation looks differently and absolutely amazing in Yellowstone! Big Dipper (Ursa Major constellation) over Old Faithful geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming Nightscape Astrophotography. Camera Canon 60Da; Lens EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM; Exposure 30.0 sec; F/2.8; ISO 4000
This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
-Mary Austin
We just wrapped up our second, sold out workshop here in Arches National Park! Not only am I an instructor, but also a full-time light painter.
Lots more to come!
If you're interested in joining me out in the field, there are still spaces left in our 2014 schedule. Visit bit.ly/gpworkshops for more info.
Through the corridors of sleep
Past the shadows dark and deep
My mind dances and leaps in confusion.
I don't know what is real,
I can't touch what I feel
And I hide behind the shield of my illusion.
- Simon And Garfunkel
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Entry for Astronomy Photographer of the Year:
This is a single exposure image.
The Milky Way pierces through the light-painted arch.
Taken at Delicate Arch in Arches National Park, Utah, USA
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The Arch in Allure of World’s carries a significant symbolic impact just by standing there. But the desert archway has a mission greater than being visually affecting. Its shape and monumental size suggest movement through time and space, and invite inquiry into the complex, fascinating stories of human expansion. It typifies the spirit of those seeking new frontiers within the confines of earth.
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I took this photo last summer on a hike with Chip MacAlpine and Gigi Peek (you should really check them both out). All in all, it was a pretty good night. We had some great views of Mt Hood, we caught a little aurora to the north, and the Milky Way was beaming to the south. If you look really closely, you can see the tiny summit of Mt Jefferson on the horizon near the middle of the photo.
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Hey friends :-) This is my new favorite star shot. It's grabbed me deep inside since it first showed up on the back of my camera. It's different for me because usually I am looking for things to ADD into the frame, not shoot with an empty landscape. But, at the top of South Sister, in a snow-filled crater there was literally nothing around! So, I tried some shots out and then was amazed to discover I loved the emptiness of it.
New "style" for me, but I like it. I'm not finished processing it, but I really wanted to get a version up online for you to see.What do you think?
This is shot on the new Canon 1Dx, ISO 8000!
Also, heads up- on the trip this photo was taken, we did a big shoot off with the Canon DSLR's to find out which one is the best night shooter. Check out sample images, notes and winner here:
www.uncagethesoul.com/night-photography/best-canon-night-...
Newport Cove
Acadia National Park, Maine
The Galactic Center of the Milky Way rises over Newport Cove, flanked by Sand Beach and Great Head, in Maine's Acadia National Park.
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Goblin Valley State Park, Utah, at Night with the Milky Way above. Walking through Goblin Valley at night is like walking through an alien land, erie and otherworldly. It's definately worth a visit! Canon 6D camera, Sigma 15mm fisheye lens, f 2.8, 30 sec exposure, ISO 6400. Hope you enjoy!
The rock formations have been likened to Goblins. If you let your imagination run wild, you can imagine that the rising sun turned the Goblins into stone in some ancient time, and the passing eons have eroded them into these shapes. The place certainly has a lot of atmosphere especially at night. The park is not all that large, and can be covered in few hours unless you want to hike around a lot.
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Breaking Twilight
Panorama at Portland Head Lighthouse, Maine
I'd been hoping to get a Milky Way shot at Portland Head Light for a couple of years now, but I never got out there early enough in the year to capture the Galactic Center before it was too far south for this location. I didn't have a pano in mind for this originally but as I was planning the shoot I thought I'd give it a try. I haven't tried Milky Way panoramas much, and this is is my first successful one.
You'll notice that the photo goes from dark on the right to bright on the left. The shots that make up this panorama were taken at the start of astronomical twilight, which means that the sun was approaching the horizon (but still about 90 minutes away from sunrise) and close enough that its scattered light brightens the horizon. The glow starts around the area where the sun will rise, which is why the middle-left side of the image is brighter, and then on the far left it goes into light pollution from the Portland area and gets very bright. But also, the shots took about 15 minutes, so within that time the earlier shots (I started from the right) would be darker than the later shots as the sun was getting closer to the horizon.
I took 12 vertical shots for this, from right to left, although maybe only 9 or 10 were needed to produce the final result. Each shot was at ISO 3200 for 25 seconds at f/2.8 using my Nikon D800E and Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 lens. The raw images were then prepped in Lightroom and stitched and edited in Photoshop.
#panorama #astrophotography #milkyway #landscapeastrophotography #stars #night #Maine #Portland #PortlandHeadLight #lighthouse
The night sky reflects Native myths and legends deeply rooted in traditional values and beliefs. The heavens and earth reveal a culture in harmony with nature.
It took a few weeks of scouting different locations around Mount Shasta to get this shot, not to mentions hours of research and calculating to get the Milky Way just right. I even got stuck on the side of a mountain a few days before taking this (I really need 4 wheel drive). If you look closely at the image, you can see a white light on the mountain... Theories?
Sorry I haven't been around everyone. I have way too much on my plate at the moment. Hope you are all doing well and I will be by your streams when I get a chance to breath over the weekend. Thank you for your comments and support!
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Venus Rising
It's Milky Way time again! It also happens to be Venus time. Venus is currently visible in the southeast from New England before dawn. This shot is from around 5am on Saturday morning on the southern Maine seacoast.
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I'm still going through old files, trying to figure out which ones haven't made their way to Flickr yet. And this happens to be one of them.
It's not easy to get a good night shot of this truck in Shaniko, Oregon. The little town has some impressive sodium vapor lights torching the place. But with some creative composition I managed to make a mostly flare-free image.
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This is a starscape from Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii. This is an exceptional place for night photography with clear skies and little light pollution. This was taken at auond 9,000 feet near the visitors center. This part of an ongoing effort to work on post processing skills.
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I'm still churning through my archives. On a personal note, my elbow is healing quickly, so I should be out taking photos again very, very soon. I'm really excited about that.
Anyway, this was taken this spring. I know I've said this to the point of cliche, but shooting here was fairly challenging. It can be really, really difficult to find good compositions when you're shooting landscape astrophotography, mostly because the primary foreground object and the primary sky object are immovable, unless you have the luxury of a forklift or the ability to wait 12 hours for the sky to move to a better position, neither of which happened to be available to me in this case. Or ever.
I was shooting uphill from this car, but I still wanted to get a substantial amount of the sky in my shot, all while shooting in landscape format. This required me to shoot two exposures, one that was mostly sky and a little bit of the horizon, and the other which pretty much had the foreground you see here. I then combined the exposures in PS, resulting in a final photo that's a little bit taller than the 2:3 aspect ratio I usually use, although it wouldn't take much of a crop to get it to 2:3.
I'm sure I probably blew my focus on those wildflowers in the foreground anyway, since I was shooting at 24mm and they were right in front of my face (and I had to get low because my foreground object was downhill from me), but the 25-mph winds and the fact that this was a 20-second exposure at high ISO certainly did nothing to unblur the flowers. But, honestly, they weren't really a part of my vision for this photo anyway.
Ah, the Alvord Desert, in southeastern Oregon. You may think you've seen dark skies, but I'm not sure there's anywhere in the continental United States that is darker than the Alvord. It was so dark that long exposures facing a hair east of due south (toward the Milky Way's galactic center at the time) managed to pick up the tiniest bit of light pollution. I'm still trying to figure out if that's from Winnemuca (population 7,000 and over 120 miles away) or the mecca of light pollution, Las Vegas (metro area population 2,000,000 and a whopping 600 miles away). The fact that I could see light pollution at all from either of these places, given their respective sizes and distances, is a testament to how incredibly dark the skies are in that desert.
Notes: There was a surprising amount of moisture in the air (I visited in May), which created the kind of gauzy, undefined look you see in the stars. The green stuff low on the horizon is, of course, airglow. In the sky you're looking at the galactic center of the Milky Way. In the sky on the right side is Rho Ophiuchi (Row O-fee-oochi), a star-forming region.
Photographic notes: Two exposures, one for the land and one for the sky, lovingly and carefully massaged in Lightroom 5 and PS 6.
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Cassiopeia and Andromeda galaxy over Bioluminescent Bio Bay Laguna Grande, Puerto Rico
Camera: Canon 60Da, Lens: EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM, Panorama of 2 images.
Night sky over plankton’s glow!
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Here's another shot from this weekend's trip up by Mt Hood. It's interesting, because, from this angle, it looks like a totally different mountain! Mt Hood never ceases to keep me guessing and gawking. I know this shot looks kind of fake with the light on the mountain and plume blowing- it had me staring at my preview screen after every shot thinking it wasn't real! But, the mountain is backlit by the light of Portland and Government Camp, but my guess is also the bright light of Timberline Lodge. As the winds blew drift off the top, the light from behind eerily lit the scene.
Aaron and I got our butts kicked hiking in the knee deep, fresh powder snow. Even with the extension floats on our snowshoes, we were sinking deep with every step. A mile and a half of cutting our own trail had us beat. Our plan was to go higher, but with the sun setting and nothing but more ball busting deep snow ahead, we were happy to make camp near this creek.
It was fun :-) Winter camping presents all sorts of challenges to keep you on your toes and paying attention to what you're doing. By 8pm, we'd both eaten and were finally feeling warmer from the Ramen, so with nothing left to do and still being wiped out from the hike in, we crashed in the tent. While Aaron was taking his shoes off to get in his sleeping bag, I was just laying on my bag, all my clothes on, savoring the feeling of not moving- when I thought, "hm... I wonder what the tent looks like glowing here right now..." I got up, pulled the camera battery out of my inner jacket pocket, turned the camera on and trudged back out to satisfy my curiosity of the shot.
The first shot had me hooked!
From there it was "Aaron, turn the light on! Now off!"
"Ok, back on!"
After 15 minutes I released him from lantern duty to go to sleep. But I told him, "The star madness has struck, I'm going back out shooting!" I brought another tent just for this type of scenario, so while Aaron slept in his tent, I drug mine all over the place taking pictures. *laughing* Ever since I started taking pictures of my tent under the stars, I use it less to sleep in at night- usually I'm not in it to sleep till about 5am after the stars are gone.
The image below is sunrise. Beautiful, but no clouds to really make it pop. But, it was certainly a thing to experience. The video below it is from before sunrise. It got cold this night. Like REAL cold. I'm guessing 0 degrees. But, it made for some startling clear stars. Awesome thing to see :-)
Natural Bridge in Bryce Canyon National Park, with the Milky Way above. This is a panorama of 8 vertical images taken with a Canon 6D camera, Canon 16-35 mm 2.8 lens at 16 mm, f/2.8, 30 sec exposures, and ISO 6400. This is a re-edit as I work on processing skills. The light on the horizon is from the town of Tropic I believe. Hope you enjoy!
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Every year or so the orbital geometry of Jupiter and Venus set things up that make them appear very close together in the night sky. I planned my trip to Smith Rock State Park just right and was fortunate enough to have an incredible break in the weather. This is a mosaic, or panorama, of 9 images stitched together for your viewing pleasure. The bright planets are visible just above the bright curve of Smith Rock, Venus being the brighter of the two, Pleiades just above them, Sirius to the left of that, and the head of Taurus to the left of that. Ever wonder why the Milky Way is curving in mosaics such as these? Head on over to the Bad Astronomy Blog and Philip Plait will fill you in: blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/03/19/galact....
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On Saturday, Valorie and I went up to the Star Party on Mt Hood, at Timberline Lodge. Wow! There was alot of people! Big telescopes were set up all over the place for visitors to look through and enjoy, friendly dogs trotted around happy to be playing in the dark, and the stars showed up in force.
The first half of the night was tame in regards to viewing stars because a half moon was shining big and bright in the sky. But, around Midnight, it dropped and the sky came alive.
Myself, Valorie, and Chip went down to Trillium Lake to look for Gary and Ted, but we could not find them at the boat dock we believed they were at. Valorie passed out asleep in the back of the car, Chip and I stayed up shooting timelapse and pictures. Since the moon dropped, the contrast in the sky was spectacular. And, even the Perseid meteors began streaking across the sky!
This was my first time shooting there at night and I was freaking out at how beautiful it is under the stars. It was certainly an incredible night.
Turns out Gary and Ted were only a couple hundred yards away at the lower end of the lake, both of them taking star shots and enjoying the night also. I was really bummed out to hear they were there and we went to the wrong spot, but... hard to complain now after working on this picture!
Thanks to all the folks involved in organizing the Star Party- it was good fun! Also, shout out to Joanna, Paulo, Chip, Gary, Ted, and Valorie whose company made the evening really nice :-)
I went out on Earth day to attempt to capture some Lyrid meteors and was unsuccessful but did come away with this panorama of the Milky Way over Muster Field Farm in Sutton, NH.
This is a 9 shot panorama from Popham Beach State Park in Maine. This beach was so much fun to shoot at. Lots of great scenes to shoot but a little difficult to navigate at night if you have never been there, which I had not. I loved the reflections in the wet sand at this spot, and there was some nice green air glow.
I took this one the night before one of my night-sky photography workshops at Crater Lake this summer. I'll be announcing my 2015 workshops this Friday at my website, if that's something you're interested in.
I've had a long fascination with this particular pine tree, which sits on the edge of Crater Lake. The erosive forces this thing has endured are incredible. Over the years, this tree has been twisted like a pretzel. It's also formed a hole in it, not unlike the eye of a needle, which is where I got my title for it. We could probably all learn something about resilience and patience from this tree.
Anyway, thanks for checking out the photo!
A single 8 second exposure of the Milky Way from the Namib, the oldest Desert on Earth.
One of my first Landscape Astophotography images that rekindled my lifelong interest in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
I got my first small Telescope soon after, and the rest is history. View my Astrophotography Gallery, with a collection new and old images.
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Here's another composition from the falls from Sunday night. I combined a long exposure landscape with a 30 second sky.
It's tricky in photoshop to combine the high contrast skyline. I stacked them, created a layer mask over the sky, and then used the eraser tool at 50 percent opacity to finesse the meeting point of sky and land.
Here's another re-processed shot taken last year.
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I FINALLY finished, today, the editing, keywording, and general polishing I've been working on for the last month!
*groan* It has been a process.
Take a lesson from me- do your processing on your original camera files. Even if they are large, and the process is slow. 'Cause later, you may want those pictures at print quality. What I had done is, to speed up editing on my older laptop I would render a 72dpi tiff from the larger RAW format, and then edit on the tiff. It really sped up my editing time and allowed me to get images up on Flickr more quickly.
But, since then, it's made a mess of things when someone shows interest in the picture, and then I say, "oh... well.. I only have that at internet resolution, not print..." And man, it's a B*#&$ to try and re-edit an image from scratch exactly how you did one before. Fortunately, I only kept that up for about 2-3 months, so it's only my early star shots (like this one) that I have had to go back and conpletely re-do.
But, the other benefit is I've learned alot about processing since then, so it's been good to re-do the older shots with new techniques.
This shot is a bracketed image of 3 shots. Only because I couldn't light the entire monument in one shot. So, I ran around like a madman inside the structure, then back to the camera to see what I missed, then back to the structure, and on and on. I believe this is 3 images bracketed. But, it's all there on sight, including the Milky Way. It's not a fake composite.
This is the Maryhill Stonehenge Monument, in the Columbia River Gorge. It was built by Samuel Hill, lead engineer of the Columbia Scenic Highway. He built this as a metaphor of the sacrifice war causes in line with the sacrifices Druids did on the real Stonehenge alters. To him- all folly.
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