Persieds
Aug 13, 2015 07:19:06 #
Shot in town. from 3am to 5am
1 20 second shot every 40 seconds.
I managed to get 2.
I plan to go to a darker zone tonight. Funny how work gets in the way of some things.
1 20 second shot every 40 seconds.
I managed to get 2.
I plan to go to a darker zone tonight. Funny how work gets in the way of some things.
Aug 13, 2015 08:55:04 #
In the 2nd image, it looks like you have a satellite. Satellites have constant brightness (and may look like a barber's pole the way they are spinning). Meteors tend to start out faint and end much brighter.
Aug 13, 2015 09:59:03 #
JimH123 wrote:
The ones that I visually saw were very quick and very short lived. I only had one or two long drawn out meteors that I of course was not shooting at the time.In the 2nd image, it looks like you have a satellite. Satellites have constant brightness (and may look like a barber's pole the way they are spinning). Meteors tend to start out faint and end much brighter.
I'm hoping to get to a dark zone tonight and get some of the rag tag leftovers. It's pretty difficult to shoot in a red zone. At least we are not white anymore.
Jim
Aug 13, 2015 11:18:20 #
I got up at 3am (no thanks to my daughter's yappy Chihuahua I'm babysitting for a few days...)so I went outside to observe what should have been the optimum view of the shower. Half an hour. Nada. Zip. Whoopee.
Aug 13, 2015 11:53:51 #
skylane5sp wrote:
It ran in little spurts here. Again, red zone is not optimal viewing but I did see close to 12 in about a 20 minute window, then I didn't see anything for a bit. I never saw a great deal here.I got up at 3am (no thanks to my daughter's yappy Chihuahua I'm babysitting for a few days...)so I went outside to observe what should have been the optimum view of the shower. Half an hour. Nada. Zip. Whoopee.
Sorry you didn't see anything at all.
Aug 14, 2015 13:29:26 #
Aug 14, 2015 14:52:50 #
CraigFair wrote:
Last night was mostly clear but I shot until 1:30 and did not see a single meteor. Nice shots Jim.
Craig From cloudy So Calif.
Craig From cloudy So Calif.
Sorry about the clouds. My high pressure shifted your way instead of Texas. I was just too tired to go anywhere
Aug 16, 2015 11:02:37 #
I was having trouble with my settings, so I asked GT what he recommended.
ISO 3200. 25 second exposures. And I decided to give the camera a 2 sec delay, and a 3 sec storage pause.
So my exposures were 5 seconds apart (total), and each 25 seconds long.
These are amassed on a 64G fast SD Card.
In retrospect, maybe a faster (lower F-stop than 3.5) lens would have changed the game.
I have always liked time lapse photography.
But the meteors I did catch were (obviously at 25 seconds) only a single frame out of hundreds.
Airplanes, on the other hand, were 3-4 frames long. Slow pokes that they are. ;)
ISO 3200. 25 second exposures. And I decided to give the camera a 2 sec delay, and a 3 sec storage pause.
So my exposures were 5 seconds apart (total), and each 25 seconds long.
These are amassed on a 64G fast SD Card.
In retrospect, maybe a faster (lower F-stop than 3.5) lens would have changed the game.
I have always liked time lapse photography.
But the meteors I did catch were (obviously at 25 seconds) only a single frame out of hundreds.
Airplanes, on the other hand, were 3-4 frames long. Slow pokes that they are. ;)
Aug 19, 2015 12:26:22 #
And with the clouds I'm back turning pens.
This is from the Myrtle you sent me.
This is from the Myrtle you sent me.
Aug 19, 2015 13:15:03 #
Myrtle is looking pretty sexy there....
Woo-Hoo!
On the 11th, GT, Hanna, and I decided we really did not care what the weather might bring. We were going to have fun in spite of it.
So Gordon showed us "Light Painting" and we had a blast with it.
Hanna was taking a lot of great shots, while I was trying my best to keep up.
Point being, damn the weather, have fun!
With a little creativity, I could see Myrtle developing a bust line along that upper curve.... :twisted: ;)
(Yep, I am hopelessly a red blooded American male...)
Woo-Hoo!
On the 11th, GT, Hanna, and I decided we really did not care what the weather might bring. We were going to have fun in spite of it.
So Gordon showed us "Light Painting" and we had a blast with it.
Hanna was taking a lot of great shots, while I was trying my best to keep up.
Point being, damn the weather, have fun!
With a little creativity, I could see Myrtle developing a bust line along that upper curve.... :twisted: ;)
(Yep, I am hopelessly a red blooded American male...)
Aug 19, 2015 13:32:52 #
SonnyE wrote:
Myrtle is looking pretty sexy there.... br br Woo... (show quote)
Whoa, look at you and your new avatar..
Nice!
Aug 19, 2015 13:42:57 #
Albuqshutterbug wrote:
Whoa, look at you and your new avatar..
Nice!
Nice!
That is Thanks to GTinSoCal!
Aug 19, 2015 14:11:18 #
SonnyE wrote:
I was having trouble with my settings, so I asked ... (show quote)
On my Tokina 16-28 f/2.8 I have tried the f/3.5 & f/4 and didn't like them as much as the f/2.8 at 25 sec and ISO 800. The faster f/stop allowed me to lower the the ISO which I think gives me a cleaner, less noisy shot.
This shot is actually shot at ISO 200, 30 sec & f/2.8, 16mm
Aug 19, 2015 14:38:14 #
CraigFair wrote:
On my Tokina 16-28 f/2.8 I have tried the f/3.5 & f/4 and didn't like them as much as the f/2.8 at 25 sec and ISO 800. The faster f/stop allowed me to lower the the ISO which I think gives me a cleaner, less noisy shot.
This shot is actually shot at ISO 200, 30 sec & f/2.8, 16mm
This shot is actually shot at ISO 200, 30 sec & f/2.8, 16mm
And... your original after I tried my hand with it. :-o
That is a beautiful shot, Craig. ;)
I did an Auto Adjust of Brightness and Contrast; Then cranked the contrast out to 100% to get the sky black again.
As much as I don't like it, I'm becoming a PP pooper.
Aug 19, 2015 14:47:32 #
Since I retired, Jim, I just don't see how I had time to waste at work. ;)
I look forward to you finding the freedom Retirement will bring. :)
I look forward to you finding the freedom Retirement will bring. :)
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