Posts for: wkocken
Jun 12, 2016 13:36:20 #
Jun 11, 2016 08:36:59 #
A few shots of the hummers at my feeder. They're not actually in flight, I guess. I'm still working to get a good shot of one hovering.
Jun 10, 2016 08:29:55 #
There is a VLBA radio dish antenna across from the Sproul ranch (google it) which would make an interesting foreground. They also run the Harvard Lodge in downtown Fort Davis. The ranch is only about 5 miles out of town, but it is very dark there. I stayed at the Sproul for a week a few years ago specifically to do astronomy. You might need their permission to be on the property, but the radio dish would be pretty cool in a photo. Here is my attempt. I'm sure you can do better.
Jun 2, 2016 08:19:50 #
In Lightroom go into the Develop module, click on Photo in the menu and then Flip Horizontal. You can select multiple photos and do them all at once.
Unfortunately there does not appear to be a keyboard shortcut, but maybe someone can suggest a way. I think you'll have to look at each slide individually to determine if it needs to be flipped.
Unfortunately there does not appear to be a keyboard shortcut, but maybe someone can suggest a way. I think you'll have to look at each slide individually to determine if it needs to be flipped.
May 24, 2016 18:29:02 #
tramsey wrote:
Nice set up and great equipment. Which of those tiny specs is Earth?? I know, I know dumb question. But here is another question that I think isn't quite as dumb: why do you use such a high ISO? I rarely go over 800, but then I shoot wild life in the daytime.
The night sky is quite dark, which requires long exposures, fast lenses and high ISO. Even then it takes some Lightroom magic to get it looking good.
May 24, 2016 18:24:38 #
MWojton wrote:
Great photo!. How many individual photos does it consist of?
It was about 75 photos.
May 23, 2016 21:40:47 #
I also posted these in the Long exposure forum. Both were taken with my Canon 7DM2, Tokina 12-24 F4 lens at 12mm. The star trails is numerous 30 second exposures at ISO 1600, F4 stacked together. The 2nd photo is one 30 second exposure, F4, ISO 3200. That is my 16" F4.5 dobsonian telescope in the foreground.
May 23, 2016 21:33:11 #
Here is a series of 30 second exposures stacked up to show stars revolving around the North Star (Polaris). As luck would have it, a satellite passed right through the center of the photo. Canon 7D Mark 2, Tokina 12-24 at 12mm, F4, ISO 1600. The foreground is a group of telescopes set and observing the night skies. The stacking was done with a free program called StarStaX.
May 23, 2016 21:25:40 #
Two of my favorite hobbies are astronomy and photography. Naturally these two combine to give me the chance to take some photos from awesome dark sky sites. This photo was taken in the panhandle of far western Oklahoma. Photo taken with Canon 7d mark 2, Tokina 12-24mm lens at 12mm, F4, 30 seconds at ISO 3200. Not bad for a crop sensor and a "slow" F4 lens. My 16"f4.5 dobsonian telescope is in the foreground.
Mar 30, 2016 09:14:06 #
Mar 13, 2016 18:54:11 #
I viewed the RAW photos in IRFANVIEW and they looked OK, so I went back to LR and tried the Reset command. It worked! I thought I'd done that previously, but I guess I did not. Thanks everyone for the help.
Mar 11, 2016 08:54:43 #
Reset didn't do it. A whole sequence of photos has this effect, and the diagonal line rotates a little bit from on photo to the next. I think they may have gotten corrupted when I copied them onto my external hard drive. The last is mirrored. There are several photos like this too. I don't think LR can fix that. PS could.
Mar 10, 2016 12:06:32 #
I "think" they were correct before. I would remember the reversed photo as being bad. Now that I think about it, I did move the files from my internal "C" drive to an external drive, using LR's file explorer. I'm not sure if that caused the problem or not.
Mar 10, 2016 11:58:07 #
I have a directory where some photos are showing a diagonal where the exposure changes and some photos that are mirror images and some that are just rotated 90 degrees. Some photos are correct. Here are examples. I deleted and rebuilt the previews and I turned off the graphics processor but the problem persists. The originals are RAW and I have Lightroom create XMP sidecar files. Can someone provide guidance to correct the situation?
Mar 7, 2016 08:45:09 #
I just happened to get an email this morning from B&H. They have their X-Rite ColorMunki Display calibrator on sale today for ( March 7) $99.95. This discussion prompted me to order one.