Damn Dave, that's neat. I'll have to wait until August before attempting anything like that, though. Not because I wait for the K-7 (which I do), but the skies are not dark enough right now.
cheers, Jostein 2009/6/24 David Savage <[email protected]>: > 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> > > D700, AF-D 20mm f2.8, 31seconds @ f5.6, ISO 6400. 7 frame panorama, > stitched in PTGui, tided up in PS & finished off in LR. > > 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 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. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- 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.

