Challenge - Nov. 6 - 8 - Pick Your Best Shots
Spectacular, bookbuyer! Please forgive my ignorance, but how in the world does your Astrograph synch to that section of space during such a long series of long exposures? I almost called it a telescope, but it's obviously more than that.
It is a telescope Richard. Just a more specialized one used for picture taking. Those exposures are relatively short. As soon as i get a pier set up in the backyard i am going to set add to the setup i use. Currently i use a 6" Newtonian Astrograph and a Nikon D5300. After the pier is set i am going to add an Orion ST80 guide scope with an Orion Starshooter Autoguiding camera attached. All this will be controlled programs on my computer. If you would like to learn more about Astrophotography watch videos from AstroBackyard on YouTube. Or look around this forum for info. There is also The Cloudy Nights
Forum that i fibd very helpful
Clicker2014 wrote:
This challenge is "Pick your best photos". What I want you to do is to pick out some of your very best photos and post them one or two maximum at a time. I would like you to say something about each picture including why you like the picture and if you wish you can add your settings, filters, etc. to help us understand what you did. Positive critiquing and/or feedback is greatly appreciated. I have been with the UHH for many years and have watched how the original Hoggers have grown in their photography and editing akilla. Also as of the last year or so we have had many new photographers join in and it has been a wonderful complement to the challenges! So pick out some of your best pictures (that is the hardest part) and start posting them to the challenge . Don't forget that Digital Art is photos, abstracts, HDR, etc. Whatever you enjoy doing in photography. Remember it is a good idea to just post one at a time (2 if you wish) so you can comment and we can reply to each picture. And most important...lets have some fun.
The attached is one of my favorite and best photos of birds in flight. I had been practicing panning and deleting a lot of photos. But this one is one of about 6 photos taken in burst mode. I happened to take the photo to the TexNep photography meeting to be critiqued by a couple of professional nature photographers and I got a very good critique which encouraged me to continue photographing birds in flight and nature in general.
Cheers!
Clicker
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Wow! Stunning photo of a beautiful bird!
Pardon the typo - beautiful white Egret shot!
No, like the first on. The whole reflection of the tree is in the frame and I like the foreground
KTJohnson wrote:
I had driven by this scene many, many times in the past with hardly a glance. It was taken almost exactly one year ago. The stillness of the water caught my eye, so I stopped, turned around & took a few shots. This is from just one photo, but because the foreground weeds were not in good focus, I cropped them out. It might have been better with a polarizing filter but the camera is all I had with me on this trip ... no bag full of goodies.
I like it because it is so peaceful looking. Post processed in Lr 5.7. I think the 2nd one (cropped) is the keeper.
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I am a symmetry guy and like the first photo as it shows the tree fully in the reflected water. And don't mind the weeds at all. But if I did, and I knew how I would simply post process them out.
I took this, while on a tour in Italy, it is one of the peaks in the Dolomites. I was at f/9, ISO100 & 1/320 using my 16-300mm Tamron on my Canon 70D
Stash
Loc: South Central Massachusetts
Very nice photo. I guess I am in the minority. I prefer the uncropped version.
Disagree.
The top image gives the foto a helpful foreground and 'finishes' the vision.
Photodoc16
Uturn
Loc: Snellville, GA
Porpise Bay, Maine, Oct. 1997
Mamiya RB67 ProS, Fuji Velvia
Swede
Loc: Trail, BC Canada
PAToGraphy wrote:
Hard for me to pick favorites or bests - that is the challenge for me. This one is part of a year long study of a stand of trees nearby. This was a particular favorite. Initial processing was in Lightroom 6. Also used Autumn presets and pumpkin spice vignette in On 1. Used Pixelmator to clone the gaps in the canopy. This image was critiqued in On1 and The Photographer and received good reviews which really encouraged me. Taken in Manual Mode, f5.6, ISO 100 1/180 with Pentax K3 The image was cropped into a pseudo pano
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Do you see anything wrong with where it is stitched together
Swede
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