On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:52:00PM +0800, David Savage wrote: > G'day Folks, > > Another night shot from my trip up north: > > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/disavage/3654473550/> > > Direct link (~170kb) > > <http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2433/3654473550_3c5c587408_o.jpg>
That shot does not suck. > > D700, AF-D 20mm f2.8, 31seconds @ f5.6, ISO 6400. 7 frame panorama, Stop doing things like that. I want to take pictures that nice and can't afford a D700. :) I just noticed that that is a "D" lens. Are you getting vignetting on your D700? Or do you clean that up when stitching together the pano? > stitched in PTGui, tided up in PS & finished off in LR. Do you have problems with star alignment when stitching together night shots like that? > > It's pretty cool to stand in a relatively isolated spot, listening to > the sound of bats & howling dingos, while watching the Milky Way > stretch from one horizon to another. It literally sent a shiver down > my spine. > > This is one of those occasions where doing a panorama was the only way > to capture the view. My widest lens at that time (20mm) wasn't wide > enough to fit it all in. I've got an idea, for the cost of a D700, I could get three K20s, and set up a bracket and wiring to do simultaneous three camera panos. It'd be a little unweildy, but I'd get more sensor area than the D700, and wouldn't have to worry about movement between frames. :) I'm lucky that I have just barely enough sense to not try such a stunt, but it could be a fun thing to set up at PDML gatherings. It might be a fun GFM project, setting up an 8 camera pano, the only trick would be to wire up a bunch of remote shutter releases in parallel. > > I have been wanting to retry a night sky pano since an somewhat > unsuccessful attempt on my Kalgoorlie road trip in Feb. This one kinda > works. > > Enjoy. > > Cheers, > > Dave > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
