AT Shot of the Day Thread

[SSSnail]

Spoooooooooooon, try messing around with the HDR and/or DRO options within the nex3 camera, you probably won't have to do any PP to get the same effects with some of the pictures.

 

[Spoooon]

Spoooooooooooon, try messing around with the HDR and/or DRO options within the nex3 camera, you probably won't have to do any PP to get the same effects with some of the pictures.

Yeah, I find that the NEX does a pretty good job OOC. I leave it on the intelligent auto mode for my wife, RAW+JPG.

A37, 17-50 2.8, Lightroom for the below shot

 

[FeuerFrei]

Impressive pics in this thread. I'm going to ruin it with one of mine.

 

[Spoooon]

Impressive pics in this thread. I'm going to ruin it with one of mine.

Shot looks great! What is that thing in the lower right hand corner?

 

[The Green Bean]

Some pics from my USA trip:

Edit: I don't know why uploaded pics aren't looking as sharp?

 

[FeuerFrei]

Shot looks great! What is that thing in the lower right hand corner?

Danke!
That thing is a vintage desk lamp. Perhaps 60s era? Closed up it roughly resembles an egg because the top and bottom are bullet shaped. The top extends on a telescoping arm. Black and chrome.

 

[Spoooon]

 

[RampantAndroid]

Overly soft, but still kinda nice. It's an HDR shot, created from 3 bracketed photos:

A shot taken at night from the Crystal Mountain Ski Resort parking lot, full moon. The Tokina wide angle lens has serious barrel distortion. I had no tripod, so the camera was resting on the roof of my car. Click photos for full res.:




I fed the last photo through the Astrometry blind astronomer. Here's what I got:
http://nova.astrometry.net/annotated_full/75888
More info here:
http://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/63497#annotated

The bright star directly below the tail of Lyra is Epsilon Lyrae, or the Double Double - two binary stars orbiting each other. I plan to point an 85mm prime at that soon, see if I can get better resolution on it using my Astrotrac.

 

[007ELmO]

I'm planning on buying an orion dobsonion telescope (XT10).

 

[xSauronx]

taken from ocracoke island last weekend with my lx7, finished with some help from lightroom.

 

[CuriousMike]

That's almost awesome.
Is the blur from wind or too long of a shutter speed?
What was the shutter speed?

taken from ocracoke island last weekend with my lx7, finished with some help from lightroom.

 

[Spoooon]

taken from ocracoke island last weekend with my lx7, finished with some help from lightroom.

Great shot!

 

[RampantAndroid]

taken from ocracoke island last weekend with my lx7, finished with some help from lightroom.

Is this a single exposure? Or did you use a tracker and stack photos?

 

[xSauronx]

single exposure. i think 40 seconds, should have stopped at 30. live and learn cant really complain though.

ocracoke is a small barrier island. one end has a small village, less than 1000 full time inhabitants, and some touristy stuff (condos, bars, campgrounds)

the other end is thin, and nobody really spends time at the other end, so i went there saturday night to take the shot. theres almost no light pollution even in town (we could see the haze of the milky way from the campground with lights on all over the place), so 15 miles away it was pitch black outside, which was perfect.

checked lightroom: 50 seconds. whatever. the one i did of 40 seconds was framed the same but the colors didnt pop so much

 

[Sunny129]

theres almost no light pollution even in town (we could see the haze of the milky way from the campground with lights on all over the place), so 15 miles away it was pitch black outside, which was perfect.

should have taken some Milkyway pics too...nice photo nonetheless :thumbsup:

 

[Nohr]

Here's a 50mm zoom of Sagittarius and the Milky Way along with several star clusters. Click the photo to see the notes on flickr, I labeled a lot of stuff. For reference this zoomed area is located in the lower right of xSauronx's wide angle Milky Way photo.

 

[RampantAndroid]

Here's a 50mm zoom of Sagittarius and the Milky Way along with several star clusters. Click the photo to see the notes on flickr, I labeled a lot of stuff. For reference this zoomed area is located in the lower right of xSauronx's wide angle Milky Way photo.

I'm surprised by the settings. Only 8 seconds? Why not push it to 20?

Awesome shot - Astrometry is awesome.

 

[Nohr]

I'm surprised by the settings. Only 8 seconds? Why not push it to 20?

Awesome shot - Astrometry is awesome.

Thanks! At 50mm 8 seconds was the max I could get away with before I got star trails. I would need a tracking mount for longer exposures at that focal length.

 

[Spoooon]

Some from today.

 

[RampantAndroid]

Thanks! At 50mm 8 seconds was the max I could get away with before I got star trails. I would need a tracking mount for longer exposures at that focal length.

Weird - I was shooting my 35mm on APS-C which is equiv to 50mm and saw no star trails at 20 seconds.

I've got an astrotrac right now, so once I get good with a 35mm and 50mm, I play to buy a sigma 85mm 1.4 lens to play with.



Spoooon, where are you taking those shots?

 

[Nohr]

Weird - I was shooting my 35mm on APS-C which is equiv to 50mm and saw no star trails at 20 seconds.

I've got an astrotrac right now, so once I get good with a 35mm and 50mm, I play to buy a sigma 85mm 1.4 lens to play with.

I also have APS-C so my 50mm is more like 80mm. Maybe I'm pixel peeping too much but even the trailing at 10 seconds usually bugs me.

An 85mm 1.4 would be a nice toy for astrophotography.

 

[Spoooon]

Weird - I was shooting my 35mm on APS-C which is equiv to 50mm and saw no star trails at 20 seconds.

I've got an astrotrac right now, so once I get good with a 35mm and 50mm, I play to buy a sigma 85mm 1.4 lens to play with.



Spoooon, where are you taking those shots?

Closed down state hospital in Columbia, SC. It used to be the South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane.

Here's a few more:

 

[xSauronx]

Here's a 50mm zoom of Sagittarius and the Milky Way along with several star clusters. Click the photo to see the notes on flickr, I labeled a lot of stuff. For reference this zoomed area is located in the lower right of xSauronx's wide angle Milky Way photo.

oooh, nice. the lx7 is a nice little point and shoot, but down the road ill get a good mirrorless and decent zoom lens. i think i need to learn manual control better first (and some other things), but ill get there...i just dont want the bulk of a dslr.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Old books are cool

 

[Spoooon]