Almost Astrophotography
Sep 16, 2022 16:12:45 #
While on holiday in Waterton Nat'l Park I shot a star trails session and a few images of the full Harvest Moon; more picturesque than astrophotography.
All subs shot using a Sony A7 III and Samyang 14mm lens off a tripod.
Enjoy!
bwa
All subs shot using a Sony A7 III and Samyang 14mm lens off a tripod.
Enjoy!
bwa
Star Trails Composite with Prince of Wales Hotel
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Moonlit Mountain and Prince of Wales Hotel
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Emerald Bay Marina
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Jupiter, Moon & Saturn off the pier
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Jupiter, Moon & Saturn over Waterton Lake
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Sep 17, 2022 08:29:37 #
Sep 17, 2022 10:33:20 #
bwana wrote:
While on holiday in Waterton Nat'l Park I shot a star trails session and a few images of the full Harvest Moon; more picturesque than astrophotography.
All subs shot using a Sony A7 III and Samyang 14mm lens off a tripod.
Enjoy!
bwa
All subs shot using a Sony A7 III and Samyang 14mm lens off a tripod.
Enjoy!
bwa
Beautiful.
Sep 17, 2022 13:11:18 #
Sep 17, 2022 13:42:14 #
JN56 wrote:
Beautiful set, love the star trails!! 👏
It didn't turn out all that bad considering a full Moon in the sky. Quite happy with the result.
bwa
Sep 17, 2022 14:01:30 #
Sep 17, 2022 15:08:58 #
I do like your star trails. I need to try i t again soon; I just have not taken the time to do one. Did you have any problems with the exposure?
Can you darken your full moon shots so one does not see the glare streaks, os is that aan agenda for the next time? --Richard
Can you darken your full moon shots so one does not see the glare streaks, os is that aan agenda for the next time? --Richard
Sep 17, 2022 19:42:35 #
Nice shots.
Is the star trails shot a single frame or a stack? If a stack, how many frames?
Is the star trails shot a single frame or a stack? If a stack, how many frames?
Sep 17, 2022 21:17:13 #
Thank you for sharing your pictures. They look great. Your pictures bring back a flood of memories. My father was born in Mountain View, just a few miles out of the park entrance. For a couple of years back in the 1960s I was employed by Waterton Park as a summer warden. I lived in a cabin near Cameron Lake. I had two horses and patrolled mountain tails, making repairs as needed. I also spent a summer in the Old Chief lookout tower watching for fires. I could tell many bear stories. Thanks again for posting these pictures.
Sep 17, 2022 21:50:14 #
Sep 17, 2022 22:38:39 #
profbowman wrote:
I do like your star trails. I need to try i t again soon; I just have not taken the time to do one. Did you have any problems with the exposure?
Can you darken your full moon shots so one does not see the glare streaks, os is that aan agenda for the next time? --Richard
Can you darken your full moon shots so one does not see the glare streaks, os is that aan agenda for the next time? --Richard
Re: Star Trail exposure. Between a full Moon in the sky and forest fire smoke, getting stars was a challenge. As it was I shot the star trails and foreground separately and created an HDR composite.
The full moon shots were meant to show Jupiter and Saturn as well as the foreground. I could have shot two sessions and created a composite but didn't bother.
bwa
Sep 17, 2022 22:45:17 #
jkm757 wrote:
Nice shots.
Is the star trails shot a single frame or a stack? If a stack, how many frames?
Is the star trails shot a single frame or a stack? If a stack, how many frames?
The star trails image was shot with the 14mm lens @ f/4 and created from 380x10sec. subs (63 minutes total) @ ISO800.
The Astro-Panel extension to Photoshop was used to process the subs to the final image.
bwa
Sep 17, 2022 23:04:57 #
wbchinook wrote:
Thank you for sharing your pictures. They look gre... (show quote)
You would probably not recognize the park after the 2017 forest fire. Very little of park was saved. Pretty much all the park's infrastructure was destroyed and is still being rebuilt.
We're visited the park many times. On all occasions before the forest fire we encountered bears everywhere (one shown below). On the two visits since the fire we've only seen one; a young grizzly.
bwa
And yes, this is photoshopped. Not a recommended approach to bears!
Sep 17, 2022 23:05:49 #
bwana wrote:
The star trails image was shot with the 14mm lens @ f/4 and created from 380x10sec. subs (63 minutes total) @ ISO800.
The Astro-Panel extension to Photoshop was used to process the subs to the final image.
bwa
The Astro-Panel extension to Photoshop was used to process the subs to the final image.
bwa
Thanks bwana
Sep 18, 2022 01:30:21 #
jkm757 wrote:
Nice shots.
Is the star trails shot a single frame or a stack? If a stack, how many frames?
Is the star trails shot a single frame or a stack? If a stack, how many frames?
If you're interested, I created a time-lapse movie of the 380 subs. 63 minutes compressed to 24 seconds @ https://flic.kr/p/2nMgRwW.
Of special note is the shadow of the mountain to east progressing over Emerald Bay as the Moon rose...
bwa
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