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Stellar waves dude. ;-)
This image features the Milky Way competing with the light pollution of San Francisco for visual dominance. The location is Bodega Bay, CA.
Nicole and I finally got out and did some night shooting. This is a two image composite, one at ISO3200-14MM-F2.8-30sec for the sky and one at ISO800-14mm-F2.8-30sec and light painted for the cattle chute. Shot raw processed in Light Room then blended in Photo Shop.
Red cabin and illuminated Christmas tree under the stars.
A dramatic night sky with clouds over Kiihtelysvaara, Eastern Finland. 2015.
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Here's a look towards a fading sunset, twinkling stars, and the light pollution dome of Moab, UT as seen from the desert a bit east of town. Please be sure to view large on black to best experience the mood of this image.
Image Notes: This is a composite of two images taken a half hour apart: one at sunset and one at first darkness.
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I went for a drive north of Fort Collins with a friend last night to do some night photography. We found below freezing temperatures and 35+ mph winds. Knowing the odds were stacked against me I persisted and came up with this result.
I used an SB-800 strobe handheld and manually popped off a few on full power to illuminate the foreground a bit and hopefully add some definition to combat blur from the wind. I am glad we stayed, it was an invigorating and fun wind! ;-)))
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#369 on Explore 22-8-2010
In this photo I captured Light Pollution from Anchorage sandwiched in between the milky way and the glow of the northern lights to the right.
"Do you ever watch the sunset
And just sit and think about things
Just you and the sky and darkness
Giving your thoughts some wings
Sunset beauty makes you feel as though
Your life has meaning after all
To see a sight so extraordinary
Makes you feel capable, strong and tall
The serenity gives you a chance
To put things in perspective
Life can be overwhelming at times
And a sunset can be reflective
So when the sky lights up next time
Let your gaze do some drinking
Soak up all the amazing sights
And do some sunset thinking!
Sunset Thinking"
-Marilyn Lott
A capture I took just as darkness fell across towards the mountains with the lights from the town beyond the trees polluting the sky (but helping me with some extra drama and light).
It was a clear sky yesterday evening, so I didn't wanted to go for the usual golden hour scenes, but decided to stay a little longer at home before taking off to the fields. I arrived at 23.30 at the spot, and took a 8 minute exposure as base layer. Then I set the cam to 30" continuous mode. The cam started clickin away, a new shot every 30". The result was 125 captures + a baselayer, stacked in Photoshop. Since I live in Flanders, lightpollution is all over the place. Also the moon was halve, so that didn't help either. It was just a test for the technique, I hope I can make a better one with better parameters (moonphase, orientation to Polaris, light pollution, more exposures,..)
For a first attempt I kinda like it.
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One of my goals for a long time now has been to do a Milky Way panorama! When I got to this spot a couple of days ago and looked up, I knew this was a good opportunity as there was nothing in the way.
Here is my very first attempt. It is 36 different pictures stitched together and 119 megapixels!
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Mont Blanc mountain range above Chamonix city lights
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We had a massive bank of clouds move in Saturday cutting our Perseid viewing short. Nonetheless, I managed to catch a few meteors before it clouded over and we still had a blast!
Image notes: this is a composite image combining all the meteors I recorded by the time viewing was no longer possible. I used my new Nitecore EA4W flashlight with a diffuser on to subtly light paint a bit of the foreground to add interest. The orange glow is from Laramie, WY light pollution. Given the paucity of meteors it made me feel lucky I got to see so many the week prior in the dark skies of Nevada's Great Basin country. And I'm pretty sure the base frame I used has a satellite here as well.
The night glow at the balloon classic was cancelled because of the wind so we drove to the boonies and did some light painting instead.
Nicole and I went out and did some night shooting last night. This is a two shot composite, one at iso2500 for 25sec at F2.8/24mm for the sky and one at iso400 for 25sec at F2.8/24mm and some light painting on the house. Shot in raw processed in Lightroom and blended in Photoshop. If you look close you see three faint meteorites just above the house.
This image features Orionid meteors (9 inc. here) and zodiacal light. If you are not familiar with zodiacal light/false dawn, it's from sunlight reflecting off dust grains that move in outer space, creating an eerie triangular shaped diffuse glow in the night sky. The glow seen here occurred before the beginning of morning twilight. Get tips on viewing zodiacal light yourself here:
earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/look-for-the-zodiacal-l...
This was taken in the foothills west of Fort Collins (Cherokee) and shows off diagnostic light pollution in addition to zodiacal light.
Image Notes: 476 consecutive 28 second, f/3.2, 14 mm, ISO 2500 exposures taken. Nine with meteors were used here for a composite image achieved via lightness blending methods.
Milky Way @ Shenandoah National Park, VA
Hazel Mountain Overlook.
I couldn't sleep on this particular morning so I got up earlier than usual for a sunrise shoot and went to SNP. Started overlook hopping, and shooting the Milky Way whenever it was visible from a particular overlook.
3:43 am - 20 seconds, ISO 3200, f/2.8, Bower 14mm
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Psyching up for one last stab at a summer Milky Way, this image is from last Spring when the arch is low to the horizon for awhile.
Just started getting into night time photography and I'm loving the results. Did an entire 2 to 3 hour time lapse of this scene and fell in love with the night sky all over again.
Stars shine bright over this old red barn. Especially Jupiter was wonderful. This is a superb month to observe it - visible almost from dusk till dawn.
Jupiter is the King of the Planets, and not just because of its enormous size - this monster planet is 88,700 miles (142,700 kilometers) in diameter. :heart:️
Kiihtelysvaara, Joensuu, North Karelia, Eastern Finland. Taken on February 11, 2015.
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This particular early morning last spring was almost a bust. It was REALLY windy, and you can see the clouds at the horizon. But I was heading home later so I went for it. Turned out OK, the Milky Way rose above the clouds, and life was good. The feeling I get watching the "Milk" come into view is quite simply amazing. Downright humbling.
Otra de la despensa de verano
Arco completo de la vía láctea sobre los restos del castillo de Gálvez .
Iluminación de las ruinas con flash y gel rojo desde la parte trasera de la torre central por un servidor .
14 fotos para hacer la panorámica
Nikon d7000 y Tokina 116 2.6
iso 6400
f 2.8
25 sec
Lowtide in Bay Saint Louis, MS a few weeks back. Wandering around the beach at night is my way to relax, especially if there is cool breeze to combat the heat and humidity. Hoping to get out this weekend.
First off I want to thank everyone for your enthusiastic support of my photography, my flickr account just passed 5 million views! Five million thanks, think of each of those stars in the sky as a thank you!
What is going on in the sky?
The green glowing sky above here is caused by a phenomena analogous to the northern lights known as airglow. Airglow is caused by the light of electronically and/or vibrationally excited atoms and molecules. Green light from excited oxygen atoms dominates the glow. Below the airglow is a bright layer of light pollution coming from natural gas being flared off on a new oil and gas field to my north near Grover.
Image Notes:
I tried to keep the colors as true to life as possible here to not lose the delicate airglow. I took two frames to extend the two-track foreground.
Mix of clouds, light pollution, and stars in a big bowl of awesome. Ashe Nursery, Desoto National Forest, MS.
This will be the one of the last images that I post from Twenty mile river for a while. Off center to the right is the constellation "Big Dipper" This constellation is the state flag of Alaska. Stars of gold on a field of blue.
World Trade Center - As is the case in the City, the sky was magnificently polluted with light. I had to time this just right to freeze the NYC bus sign and the light trail. This added some motion while naming the city at once.
I'm planning to try a lot of Milky Way pictures this year. Hopefully this will be my worst. Now I'm just waiting for more clear weather.
Hay que aprovechar estos días tan increíbles que estamos teniendo, pese a que hoy ya había algunas nubecillas y trazas de aviones. Finiquitamos el año con una Via lactea desde la Pedriza, subiendo hasta el Collado Cabrón y siguiendo hasta uno de los miradores que dan hacia la zona de "las Torres " , " El Pajaro" , el"Collado de la Dehesilla" y el Yelmo ( de izquierda a derecha ).
Madrid, no hace falta que diga donde está, y no..no es el atardecer jajaja.
Panorámica de 25 fotos verticales cubriendo 360 grados.
Nikon d7000 y Tokina 116 2.8
iso 4000
f 2.8
20 sec
Great location with lots of potential but weather didn't play nice as usually the case. This whole scenery was lit up by me otherwise you wouldn't see anything but dark silhouette against light polluted skies.
The Pawnee Buttes are one of Colorado's treasures, located in what used to be the middle of nowhere in the Pawnee National Grasslands. These days their neighbors are abundant and include fracking and drilling sites and the occasional missile silo.
On this night, a layer of clouds moving by caught the light from an open flame of one of the neighbors painting them orange while the setting moon bathed the landscape. The combined result is this unusual combination of color in the night.
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall
This is the Milky Way just before morning twilight earlier this month.
Traffic and clouds at Newfound Gap Overlook made things interesting for night photos. Love that place!
During my latest visit to Mars, I discovered an anlien's nest. Believe it or not, the maritians lay their eggs into the open sand and let the stars hatch them...
For those who don't believe it: The image was taken at the cracked eggs in Bisti Badlands.
I captured Milky Way shortly before moonrise. The foreground was shot directly afterwards during monrise, using focus stacking. The "cracked eggs" in the foreground were lit with 2 LED lights using Low Level Lighting.
- Astro modified Canon EOS 6D
- Samyang 24mm f/1.4
Foreground:
- Focus stack using 2 x 10 images of 12s @ ISO 6400
- LLL with 2 LED lights
Sky:
- 10 x 12s @ ISO 6400 from fixed tripod stacked with fltswork4
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For this shot I edited out the star trail smear of the eclipsed moon as it moved across the sky, and replaced its trail with several still shots of the moon in various phases of eclipse.
The blue streak along the shore is another photographer walking with a halogen headlamp on while I exposed the star trail shot for about 10 minutes.
I assume the reason that the moon rides the line between where the stars curve one way and the other is becuse it travels between the north and south hemisphere, and I used a lens at 10mm (16mm equivalent on a 35mm camera). Facing southwest I caught some stars that would appear to rotate around the North Star, and some in the southern sky that would appear to rotate around an analogous point down there (wherever the earth's southern axis points).
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Overlooking Boulder, Colorado, from tip of one of the Flatiron peaks.
~1,500 ft above Boulder.
I headed up here at night with one of my two awesome brothers; you can check out more of his adventures at www.instagram.com/tkessel20
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This really must be seen large On Black
Lord knows how many times i`ve been out this winter in search for the aurora. I`ve seen it a few times this winter, but always down by the sea...And i really want my aurorashots to be in a different setting.
Last friday i put on my skiis and went into the woods. The darkness was total, and it felt kinda uncomfortable. No moonlight to help me... But the good news was that the aurora was dancing across the sky.
Composition was tricky. Composing in the woods can be tricky in daylight...in complete darkness it`s a lot worse :-) I knew i had to use 2 exposures to get enough light on the foreground. I ended up with 122 secs @ f/4 and iso 1600. During the exposure the snow picked up a little glow from the aurora. We have a lot of snow at the moment... Despite the 2 minutes on iso 1600, the foreground was still a bit dark, but i can live with that..
For the sky i used 19 sec, f/4 and iso 1600. The sky is a little brighter in the evenings these days, compared to earlier in the winter. The sky in this shot is a mix of lightpollution and the blue evening sky...
While i was exposing the foreground i was enjoying the complete silence. Very fascinating.....then suddenly something broke a branch 10 meters away from me. If i had been a pregnant woman...i`m pretty sure the baby would have popped out like a rocket. Good thing i`m not a pregnant woman... Whatever it was..it scared the shit out of me..
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Here's an image of the Milky Way in the Sand Creek area in the northern Rockies of Colorado. This is taken from the night of the Orionid Metors and I'm posting it in part as a reminder that the Geminds Meteor Shower is peaking tonight and should still be very good tomorrow night. Plus a new meteor shower might happen this year that coincides with the Geminds, call it a two for one! You can get more tips on viewing the show here:
earthsky.org/tonight/geminid-meteor-shower-peaks-on-night...