Thanks to all for who took the time to look & comment. - Rob: "you are making that new hardware work for you, that's just great to see"
It was for this kind of photo that I got the D700. So far I'm very happy. - Paul: "I only recall seeing a clearly defined band of the galaxy once in my life," I've seen it several times this year alone :-) You need to come camping in .au some time. Hell not even camping. If I drive 2-3 hours out of the city the stars are pretty impressive. - Mark: "You suck. ;-)" Yes I do. - Doug: "seriously" Yes, I seriously do. - Christian: "dammit, Dave, I totally despise you!" Aww...thanks mate. :-) - Bob S.: "Dave, You're killing us here!" Whoops. Sorry ;-) - Dave B: "You can avoid the shiver feeling by putting the ice IN the drink, not in the pants" Yeah but I like chilli nuts... - Larry: "Stop doing things like that. I want to take pictures that nice and can't afford a D700. :)" Yeah but unless you can get somewhere with clear skies... "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?" The AF-D does vignette slightly, but I never worry about it. I generally add more vignetting anyway :-) With panos, given that I generally go for about 50% overlap, it's rarely a problem. but if it becomes too much (usually when a polarising filter is used), I correct for it in LR before exporting the files for stitching. "Do you have problems with star alignment when stitching together night shots like that?" Nope. PTGui stitched it perfectly the first time. - Cotty: "Holy shit. Sorry for swearing. That's incredible." Thanks mate. And swearing doesn't offend me :-) - Christine: "Well, aren't you just the top banana among star shooters!" I don't know about that, but I'm getting better with each excursion. "P.S. I know a guy in Chicago who might be able to solve your belt problem, but it'll cost you--he'll want some dingo suspenders in return I'm sure." No belt problems here any more :-) - Jostein:"Damn Dave, that's neat" Thanks mate. "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." I look forward to seeing your results. I'm also interested to see how the K-7 handles both long exposure & high ISO shots like this one. - Doug F. "The light pollution around north Atlanta is terrible. To the point I'm unwilling to spend any money on a telescope, though I'd love to have one. It would be nearly pointless here, and I'd end up having to drive a couple hours out into the hinterlands to see much, which effectively means it wouldn't get used. :-)" Perth is bad for light pollution too. But the beauty of Western Australia is that it has so few large population centres that you can get away from it very easily. I've decided that I'm going to get this one printed large (1m x 0.45m) & framed.. I've reprocessed the original RAW files, restitched it & am going to hit it with Noise Ninja. Hopefully it'll look alright. Cheers, Dave 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> -- 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.
