Posts for: pfrancke
Feb 23, 2024 19:14:12 #
DougS wrote:
Excellent photography! Beautifully captured!
Bad(?) thing is: makes me want to go dig out my telescope (which lies buried in my storage room)...
Bad(?) thing is: makes me want to go dig out my telescope (which lies buried in my storage room)...
thanks Doug - LOL, too funny! Yeah, go Unbury that thing!
Feb 23, 2024 19:13:11 #
Feb 23, 2024 12:25:29 #
Orion, a place that draws a newcomer as a moth is drawn to flame and light.
I have long followed the complexity and challenge presented by this forum in particular and have at long last realized that technology has been changing and what was once very difficult (likely impossible for me) has become at least approachable. So I decided to learn and expand my frontiers by seeing what I could see.
Recipe:
Thirty exposures at 180 seconds each, 20 @ 90s, 10 @ 15s.
Old Canon 400mm lens plus 1.4 extender
ZWO AM5 mount
ASI2600MC-Duo camera
ASIAir computer to control the mount and camera
pixInsight software to stack and edit and then input into PS for more play
and half a moon under dark Maine skies
I have long followed the complexity and challenge presented by this forum in particular and have at long last realized that technology has been changing and what was once very difficult (likely impossible for me) has become at least approachable. So I decided to learn and expand my frontiers by seeing what I could see.
Recipe:
Thirty exposures at 180 seconds each, 20 @ 90s, 10 @ 15s.
Old Canon 400mm lens plus 1.4 extender
ZWO AM5 mount
ASI2600MC-Duo camera
ASIAir computer to control the mount and camera
pixInsight software to stack and edit and then input into PS for more play
and half a moon under dark Maine skies
Feb 23, 2024 12:07:47 #
Aug 17, 2023 09:16:24 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
Wow, that is some shot Piet
thanks Jack - was swinging a 600mm lens around like a baseball bat, not working very well!
Aug 17, 2023 09:15:15 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
I wish I had the post processing and compositing skill to produce something like this but I don't and probably never will.
This AI image was created by MidJourney in response to the simple prompt "Ghost riders in the sky". I used Generative Expand in Photoshop beta to selectively enlarge the image. No other processing was done to this image.
This AI image was created by MidJourney in response to the simple prompt "Ghost riders in the sky". I used Generative Expand in Photoshop beta to selectively enlarge the image. No other processing was done to this image.
Love this - you should play more with it, introduce a fog/haze/etc to get more mood out of it - love the strong contrasts though!!!
Aug 17, 2023 09:12:52 #
UTMike wrote:
I love this one, Piet!
thanks Mike, I grinned when I saw what the camera told me.
Aug 16, 2023 21:37:55 #
Aug 16, 2023 21:33:13 #
nice job -- hard for me to get a ship out of AI - love everything about this one!
Jul 2, 2023 13:11:37 #
joecichjr wrote:
A forlorn shot - for TWO of you 
I know that this nest has two hungry juveniles in it - but yeah, I am sure that the dinner is not very happy about being invited to dinner.
Jul 2, 2023 13:10:28 #
Jul 2, 2023 13:08:54 #
Jul 2, 2023 08:20:54 #
thanks lamiaceae and uhaas2009
Ha! The eagle babies eat well. The eagle's rock that he uses to pluck feathers at
raymondh wrote:
It appears it forgot to duck.
Ha! The eagle babies eat well. The eagle's rock that he uses to pluck feathers at
Jul 2, 2023 00:00:36 #
I really, really, love your colors and general composition. Now for the critique part. The subjects right hand is too strong and steals attention. Dim it or some such. Background in upper right is too strong/sharp. Let it fade away (my opinion anyway). Soften her left eye some - though I love the wildness you have captured here.
She has a magic - this is wonderful to me.
She has a magic - this is wonderful to me.
Jul 1, 2023 23:40:45 #